The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2James R. Osgood and Company, 1876 |
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... idea makes its own channels and welcome , harvests for food , institutions for expression , weapons to fight with , and disciples ... ideas . — Behmen and Sweden- - As plants convert the minerals into food for animals USES OF GREAT MEN . 7 བ.
... idea makes its own channels and welcome , harvests for food , institutions for expression , weapons to fight with , and disciples ... ideas . — Behmen and Sweden- - As plants convert the minerals into food for animals USES OF GREAT MEN . 7 བ.
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... ideas . Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions , and draws their map ; and , by acquainting us with new fields of activity , cools our affection for the old . These are at once accepted as the reality , of ...
... ideas . Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions , and draws their map ; and , by acquainting us with new fields of activity , cools our affection for the old . These are at once accepted as the reality , of ...
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... ideas , we do not owe this to Plato , but to the idea , to which also Plato was debtor . I must not forget that we have a special debt to a single class . Life is a scale of degrees . Between rank and rank of our great men are wide ...
... ideas , we do not owe this to Plato , but to the idea , to which also Plato was debtor . I must not forget that we have a special debt to a single class . Life is a scale of degrees . Between rank and rank of our great men are wide ...
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... ideas , the service rendered by those who introduce moral truths into the general mind ? I am plagued , in all my living , with a perpetual tariff of prices . If I work in my garden and prune an apple- tree , I am well enough ...
... ideas , the service rendered by those who introduce moral truths into the general mind ? I am plagued , in all my living , with a perpetual tariff of prices . If I work in my garden and prune an apple- tree , I am well enough ...
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... ideas of the time are in the air , and infect all who breathe it . Viewed from any high point , this city of New York , yonder city of London , the Western civilization , would seem a bundle of insanities . We keep each other in ...
... ideas of the time are in the air , and infect all who breathe it . Viewed from any high point , this city of New York , yonder city of London , the Western civilization , would seem a bundle of insanities . We keep each other in ...
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