Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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... youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and words and forms , of whose influence he was merely the organ to the youth . The fact teaches him how Belus was worshiped , and how the pyramids were built , better than the ...
... youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and words and forms , of whose influence he was merely the organ to the youth . The fact teaches him how Belus was worshiped , and how the pyramids were built , better than the ...
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... youth and puberty and manhood no less with its own piquancy and charm , and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by , if it will stand by itself . Do not think the youth has no force because he cannot speak to you ...
... youth and puberty and manhood no less with its own piquancy and charm , and made it enviable and gracious and its claims not to be put by , if it will stand by itself . Do not think the youth has no force because he cannot speak to you ...
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First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. primary teaching of the soul . In youth we are mad for persons . Childhood and youth see all the world in them . But the larger experience of man discovers the identical na- ture appearing through them ...
First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. primary teaching of the soul . In youth we are mad for persons . Childhood and youth see all the world in them . But the larger experience of man discovers the identical na- ture appearing through them ...
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