The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2James R. Osgood and Company, 1876 |
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... once : we wish for a thousand 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 ...
... once : we wish for a thousand 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 ...
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... once accepted as the reality , of which the world we have conversed with is the show . We go to the gymnasium and the swimming - school to see the power and beauty of the body ; there is the like pleasure , and a higher benefit , from ...
... once accepted as the reality , of which the world we have conversed with is the show . We go to the gymnasium and the swimming - school to see the power and beauty of the body ; there is the like pleasure , and a higher benefit , from ...
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... once having passed the bounds , shall never again be quite the miserable pedants we were . The high functions of the intellect are so allied , that some imaginative power usually appears in all eminent minds , even in arithmeticians of ...
... once having passed the bounds , shall never again be quite the miserable pedants we were . The high functions of the intellect are so allied , that some imaginative power usually appears in all eminent minds , even in arithmeticians of ...
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... Once you saw phoenixes : they are gone ; the world is not therefore disen- chanted . The vessels on which you read sacred emblems turn out to be common pottery ; but the sense of the pictures is sacred , and you may still read them ...
... Once you saw phoenixes : they are gone ; the world is not therefore disen- chanted . The vessels on which you read sacred emblems turn out to be common pottery ; but the sense of the pictures is sacred , and you may still read them ...
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... once the glory and the shame of mankind , since neither Saxon nor Ro- man have availed to add any idea to his categories . No wife , no children had he , and the thinkers of all civilized nations are his posterity , and are tinged with ...
... once the glory and the shame of mankind , since neither Saxon nor Ro- man have availed to add any idea to his categories . No wife , no children had he , and the thinkers of all civilized nations are his posterity , and are tinged with ...
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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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