The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2James R. Osgood and Company, 1876 |
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... heads , a thousand 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 ...
... heads , a thousand 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 ...
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... head , too , falls that homage , very pure , as I think , which all ranks pay to the hero of the day , from Corio- lanus and Gracchus , down to Pitt , Lafayette , Wellington , Webster , Lamartine . Hear the shouts in the street ! The ...
... head , too , falls that homage , very pure , as I think , which all ranks pay to the hero of the day , from Corio- lanus and Gracchus , down to Pitt , Lafayette , Wellington , Webster , Lamartine . Hear the shouts in the street ! The ...
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... heads are bathed with galaxies , and our feet . tread the floor of the Pit . And this benefit is real , because we are entitled to these enlargements , and , once having passed the bounds , shall never again be quite the miserable ...
... heads are bathed with galaxies , and our feet . tread the floor of the Pit . And this benefit is real , because we are entitled to these enlargements , and , once having passed the bounds , shall never again be quite the miserable ...
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... head , than any of his contemporaries , it is sure to come into doubt , what are his real works . Thus , Homer , Plato , Raffaelle , Shakespeare . For these men magnetize their contemporaries , so that their companions can do for them ...
... head , than any of his contemporaries , it is sure to come into doubt , what are his real works . Thus , Homer , Plato , Raffaelle , Shakespeare . For these men magnetize their contemporaries , so that their companions can do for them ...
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... head of literatures . A dis- cipline it is in logic , arithmetic , taste , symmetry , poetry , lan- guage , rhetoric , ontology , morals , or practical wisdom . There was never such range of speculation . Out of Plato come all things ...
... head of literatures . A dis- cipline it is in logic , arithmetic , taste , symmetry , poetry , lan- guage , rhetoric , ontology , morals , or practical wisdom . There was never such range of speculation . Out of Plato come all things ...
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