Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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Page 20
... universal man wrote by his pen a confession true for one and true for all . His own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , yet dotted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private ...
... universal man wrote by his pen a confession true for one and true for all . His own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to him , yet dotted down before he was born . One after another he comes up in his private ...
Page 101
... , as toys , and puts on the harness , and aspires to vast and universal aims . The soul which is in the soul of each , craving for a perfect beatitude , detects incongruities , defects , and dispropor- EMERSON'S ESSAYS 101.
... , as toys , and puts on the harness , and aspires to vast and universal aims . The soul which is in the soul of each , craving for a perfect beatitude , detects incongruities , defects , and dispropor- EMERSON'S ESSAYS 101.
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... universal beauty , to which every part and particle is equally related ; the eternal ONE . And this deep power in which we exist , and whose beatitude is all accessible to us , is not only self - sufficing and perfect in every hour ...
... universal beauty , to which every part and particle is equally related ; the eternal ONE . And this deep power in which we exist , and whose beatitude is all accessible to us , is not only self - sufficing and perfect in every hour ...
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