The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2James R. Osgood and Company, 1876 |
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... bodies , that we might celebrate its immense beauty in many ways and places . Is this fancy ? Well , in good faith , we are multiplied by our proxies . How easily we adopt their labors ! Every ship that comes to America got its chart ...
... bodies , that we might celebrate its immense beauty in many ways and places . Is this fancy ? Well , in good faith , we are multiplied by our proxies . How easily we adopt their labors ! Every ship that comes to America got its chart ...
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... body ; there is the like pleasure , and a higher benefit , from witnessing intellectual feats of all kinds ; as , feats of memory , of mathematical combination , great power of abstraction , the transmutings of the imagina- tion , even ...
... body ; there is the like pleasure , and a higher benefit , from witnessing intellectual feats of all kinds ; as , feats of memory , of mathematical combination , great power of abstraction , the transmutings of the imagina- tion , even ...
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... body . For , we thus enter a new gymnasium , and learn to choose men by their truest marks , taught , with Plato , " to choose those who can , without aid from the eyes , or any other sense , proceed to truth and to being . " Foremost ...
... body . For , we thus enter a new gymnasium , and learn to choose men by their truest marks , taught , with Plato , " to choose those who can , without aid from the eyes , or any other sense , proceed to truth and to being . " Foremost ...
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... body , that man liberates me ; I for- get the clock ; I pass out of the sore relation to persons ; I am healed of my hurts ; I am made immortal by apprehending my possession of incorruptible goods . Here is great competi- tion of rich ...
... body , that man liberates me ; I for- get the clock ; I pass out of the sore relation to persons ; I am healed of my hurts ; I am made immortal by apprehending my possession of incorruptible goods . Here is great competi- tion of rich ...
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... body , the breath of their mouth . Compromise thy egotism . Who cares for that , so thou gain aught wider and nobler ? Never mind the taunt of Boswellism : the devotion may easily be greater than the wretched pride which is guarding its ...
... body , the breath of their mouth . Compromise thy egotism . Who cares for that , so thou gain aught wider and nobler ? Never mind the taunt of Boswellism : the devotion may easily be greater than the wretched pride which is guarding its ...
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