The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2James R. Osgood and Company, 1876 |
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... masters , and eager for change . Housekeepers say of a domestic who has been valu- able , She had lived with me long enough . We are tendencies , or rather , symptoms , and none of us complete . We touch and go , and sip the foam of ...
... masters , and eager for change . Housekeepers say of a domestic who has been valu- able , She had lived with me long enough . We are tendencies , or rather , symptoms , and none of us complete . We touch and go , and sip the foam of ...
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... master standing firm on legs of iron , well - born , rich , handsome , eloquent , loaded with advan- tages , drawing all men by fascination into tributaries and sup- porters of his power . Sword and staff , or talents sword - like or ...
... master standing firm on legs of iron , well - born , rich , handsome , eloquent , loaded with advan- tages , drawing all men by fascination into tributaries and sup- porters of his power . Sword and staff , or talents sword - like or ...
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... master , and what is only of his school . Plato , too , like every great man , consumed his own times . What is a great man , but one of great affinities , who takes up into himself all arts , sciences , all knowables , as his food ? He ...
... master , and what is only of his school . Plato , too , like every great man , consumed his own times . What is a great man , but one of great affinities , who takes up into himself all arts , sciences , all knowables , as his food ? He ...
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... master , and what is only of his school . Plato , too , like every great man , consumed his own times . What is a great man , but one of great affinities , who takes up into himself all arts , sciences , all knowables , as his food ? He ...
... master , and what is only of his school . Plato , too , like every great man , consumed his own times . What is a great man , but one of great affinities , who takes up into himself all arts , sciences , all knowables , as his food ? He ...
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... Masters ; and we have the beginnings of geometry , metaphysics , and ethics : then the partialists , deducing the origin of things from flux or water , or from air , or from fire , or from mind . All mix with these causes mythologic ...
... Masters ; and we have the beginnings of geometry , metaphysics , and ethics : then the partialists , deducing the origin of things from flux or water , or from air , or from fire , or from mind . All mix with these causes mythologic ...
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