The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2James R. Osgood and Company, 1876 |
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... human mind . The student of history is like a man going into a warehouse to buy cloths or carpets . He fancies he has a new article . If he go to the factory , he shall find that his new stuff still repeats the scrolls and rosettes ...
... human mind . The student of history is like a man going into a warehouse to buy cloths or carpets . He fancies he has a new article . If he go to the factory , he shall find that his new stuff still repeats the scrolls and rosettes ...
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... human mind . The student of history is like a man going into a warehouse to buy cloths or carpets . He fancies he has a new article . If he go to the factory , he shall find that his new stuff still repeats the scrolls and rosettes ...
... human mind . The student of history is like a man going into a warehouse to buy cloths or carpets . He fancies he has a new article . If he go to the factory , he shall find that his new stuff still repeats the scrolls and rosettes ...
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... human use . The inventors of fire , electricity , magnetism , iron , lead , glass , linen , silk , cotton ; the ... human deliverer . Each must be disenchanted , and walk forth to the day in human shape . In the history of discovery ...
... human use . The inventors of fire , electricity , magnetism , iron , lead , glass , linen , silk , cotton ; the ... human deliverer . Each must be disenchanted , and walk forth to the day in human shape . In the history of discovery ...
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... human being thoughts out of a certain height , and presup- posing his intelligence . This honor , which is possible in per- sonal intercourse scarcely twice in a lifetime , genius per- petually pays ; contented , if now and then , in a ...
... human being thoughts out of a certain height , and presup- posing his intelligence . This honor , which is possible in per- sonal intercourse scarcely twice in a lifetime , genius per- petually pays ; contented , if now and then , in a ...
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... human 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 ...
... human 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 ...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. in Two Volumes, Volume 2 Ralph Waldo Emerson No preview available - 2006 |
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