Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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... heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way . " What is History , " said Napoleon , " but a fable agreed upon ? " This life of ours is stuck round with Egypt , Greece , Gaul , England , War ...
... heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way . " What is History , " said Napoleon , " but a fable agreed upon ? " This life of ours is stuck round with Egypt , Greece , Gaul , England , War ...
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... heaven had sent its insane angels into our world as to an asylum , and here they will break out into their native music and utter at intervals the words they have heard in heaven ; then the mad fit returns , and they mope and wallow ...
... heaven had sent its insane angels into our world as to an asylum , and here they will break out into their native music and utter at intervals the words they have heard in heaven ; then the mad fit returns , and they mope and wallow ...
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... work , the society , letters , arts , science , religion of men , would go on far better than now , and the Heaven predicted from the beginning of you the world , and still predicted from the bottom of 76 EMERSON'S ESSAYS.
... work , the society , letters , arts , science , religion of men , would go on far better than now , and the Heaven predicted from the beginning of you the world , and still predicted from the bottom of 76 EMERSON'S ESSAYS.
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