Essays: First SeriesUnited States Book Company, 1899 - 326 pages |
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First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. I am owner of the sphere , Of the seven stars and the solar year . Of Cæsar's hand , and Plato's brain , Of Lord Christ's heart , and Shakspeare's strain . ESSAY I. HISTORY . THERE is one mind common to.
First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. I am owner of the sphere , Of the seven stars and the solar year . Of Cæsar's hand , and Plato's brain , Of Lord Christ's heart , and Shakspeare's strain . ESSAY I. HISTORY . THERE is one mind common to.
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... Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only ...
... Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only ...
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... Plato becomes a thought to me , -when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we two meet in a perception , that our two souls are tinged with the same hue , and do as it were run into one ...
... Plato becomes a thought to me , -when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we two meet in a perception , that our two souls are tinged with the same hue , and do as it were run into one ...
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... Plato said that " poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand . " All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that ...
... Plato said that " poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand . " All the fictions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that ...
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... Plato and Milton is that they set at naught books and tradi- tions , and spoke not what men , but what they thought . A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within , more than the ...
... Plato and Milton is that they set at naught books and tradi- tions , and spoke not what men , but what they thought . A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within , more than the ...
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