Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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... means and ends , seed and fruit , cannot be severed ; for the effect already blooms in the cause , the end pre - exists in the means , the fruit in the seed . Whilst thus the world will be whole , and refuses to be dis- parted , we seek ...
... means and ends , seed and fruit , cannot be severed ; for the effect already blooms in the cause , the end pre - exists in the means , the fruit in the seed . Whilst thus the world will be whole , and refuses to be dis- parted , we seek ...
Page 143
... mean ; but how did we find out that it was mean ? What is the ground of this uneasiness of ours ; of this old discontent ? What is the universal sense of want and ignorance , but the fine innuendo by which the great soul makes its ...
... mean ; but how did we find out that it was mean ? What is the ground of this uneasiness of ours ; of this old discontent ? What is the universal sense of want and ignorance , but the fine innuendo by which the great soul makes its ...
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First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. Men descend to meet . In their habitual and mean service to the world , for which they forsake their native nobleness , they resemble those Arabian Sheikhs , who dwell in mean houses and affect an ...
First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. Men descend to meet . In their habitual and mean service to the world , for which they forsake their native nobleness , they resemble those Arabian Sheikhs , who dwell in mean houses and affect an ...
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