The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2James R. Osgood and Company, 1876 |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. I. USES OF GREAT MEN . USES OF GREAT MEN . T is natural to believe USES OF GREAT MEN •
Ralph Waldo Emerson. I. USES OF GREAT MEN . USES OF GREAT MEN . T is natural to believe USES OF GREAT MEN •
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. USES OF GREAT MEN . T is natural to believe in great men . If the companions IT of our childhood should turn out to be heroes , and their con- dition regal , it would not surprise us . All mythology opens with ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. USES OF GREAT MEN . T is natural to believe in great men . If the companions IT of our childhood should turn out to be heroes , and their con- dition regal , it would not surprise us . All mythology opens with ...
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... believe in imputed merit . But , in strictness , we are not much cognizant of direct serving . Man is endogenous , and education is his unfolding . The aid we have from others is mechanical , compared with the discov- eries of nature in ...
... believe in imputed merit . But , in strictness , we are not much cognizant of direct serving . Man is endogenous , and education is his unfolding . The aid we have from others is mechanical , compared with the discov- eries of nature in ...
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... believe him an original force . In the moment when he ceases to help us as a cause , he begins to help us more as an effect . Then he appears as an exponent of a vaster mind and will . The opaque self becomes transparent with the light ...
... believe him an original force . In the moment when he ceases to help us as a cause , he begins to help us more as an effect . Then he appears as an exponent of a vaster mind and will . The opaque self becomes transparent with the light ...
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... believe in admirable souls , is because they are not in our experience . In actual life , they are so rare , as to be incredible ; but , primarily , there is not only no presumption against them , but the strong- est presumption in ...
... believe in admirable souls , is because they are not in our experience . In actual life , they are so rare , as to be incredible ; but , primarily , there is not only no presumption against them , but the strong- est presumption in ...
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