The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2James R. Osgood and Company, 1876 |
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... king ; the other , democ- racy : and , if we dare carry these generalizations a step higher , and name the last tendency of both , we might say , that the end of the one is escape from organization , pure science ; and the end of the ...
... king ; the other , democ- racy : and , if we dare carry these generalizations a step higher , and name the last tendency of both , we might say , that the end of the one is escape from organization , pure science ; and the end of the ...
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... king of heaven and of earth " ; but , in Plato , intellect is always moral . His writings have also the sempiternal youth of poetry . For their arguments , most of them , might have been couched in son- nets and poetry has never soared ...
... king of heaven and of earth " ; but , in Plato , intellect is always moral . His writings have also the sempiternal youth of poetry . For their arguments , most of them , might have been couched in son- nets and poetry has never soared ...
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... King Charles XII . , by whom he was much consulted and honored . The like favor was continued to him by his successor . At the Diet of 1751 , Count Hopken says , the most solid memorials on finance were from his pen . In Sweden , he ...
... King Charles XII . , by whom he was much consulted and honored . The like favor was continued to him by his successor . At the Diet of 1751 , Count Hopken says , the most solid memorials on finance were from his pen . In Sweden , he ...
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... kings , counsel- lors , cavaliers , doctors , Sir Isaac Newton , Sir Hans Sloane , King George II . , Mahomet , or whosoever , and all gather one grimness of hue and style . Only when Cicero comes by , our gentle seer sticks a little at ...
... kings , counsel- lors , cavaliers , doctors , Sir Isaac Newton , Sir Hans Sloane , King George II . , Mahomet , or whosoever , and all gather one grimness of hue and style . Only when Cicero comes by , our gentle seer sticks a little at ...
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... king , prelate , or puritan , alone or united , suppress an organ , which was ballad , epic , newspaper , caucus , lecture , Punch , and library , at the same time . Probably king , prelate , and puritan , all found their own account in ...
... king , prelate , or puritan , alone or united , suppress an organ , which was ballad , epic , newspaper , caucus , lecture , Punch , and library , at the same time . Probably king , prelate , and puritan , all found their own account in ...
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