Essays: First SeriesUnited States Book Company, 1899 - 326 pages |
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... genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less than all his his- tory . Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought ...
... genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less than all his his- tory . Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought ...
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... genius , — anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for our betters ; but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of ...
... genius , — anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for our betters ; but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of ...
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... flowers and wild ornaments grave and gay . I will not make more account of them . I believe in Eter- nity . I can find Greece , Palestine , Italy , Spain and the Islands , the genius and creative principle of each 12 HISTORY .
... flowers and wild ornaments grave and gay . I will not make more account of them . I believe in Eter- nity . I can find Greece , Palestine , Italy , Spain and the Islands , the genius and creative principle of each 12 HISTORY .
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First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. the Islands , the genius and creative principle of each and of all eras , in my own mind . We are always coming up with the facts that have moved us in history in our private experience and verifying ...
First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. the Islands , the genius and creative principle of each and of all eras , in my own mind . We are always coming up with the facts that have moved us in history in our private experience and verifying ...
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... genius , obeying its law , knows how to play with them as a young child plays with greybeards and in churches . Genius studies the causal thought , and far back in the womb of things sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge ...
... genius , obeying its law , knows how to play with them as a young child plays with greybeards and in churches . Genius studies the causal thought , and far back in the womb of things sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge ...
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