Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. ESSAY X CIRCLES THE eye is the first circle ; the horizon which it forms is the second ; and throughout nature this primary is repeated without end . It is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world ...
First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. ESSAY X CIRCLES THE eye is the first circle ; the horizon which it forms is the second ; and throughout nature this primary is repeated without end . It is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world ...
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... circle , which , from a ring imperceptibly small , rushes on all sides outward to new and larger circles , and that without end . The extent to which this generation of circles , wheel without wheel , will go , de- pends on the force or ...
... circle , which , from a ring imperceptibly small , rushes on all sides outward to new and larger circles , and that without end . The extent to which this generation of circles , wheel without wheel , will go , de- pends on the force or ...
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... circle around the circle we had just pronounced the outline of the sphere . Then already is our first speaker not man , but only a first speaker . His only redress is forthwith to draw a circle outside of his antagonist . And so men do ...
... circle around the circle we had just pronounced the outline of the sphere . Then already is our first speaker not man , but only a first speaker . His only redress is forthwith to draw a circle outside of his antagonist . And so men do ...
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