The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2James R. Osgood and Company, 1876 |
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... opinion , the security that we are right . Not the feeblest grandame , not a mowing idiot , but uses what spark of perception and faculty is left , to chuckle and triumph in his or her opinion over the absurdities of all the rest ...
... opinion , the security that we are right . Not the feeblest grandame , not a mowing idiot , but uses what spark of perception and faculty is left , to chuckle and triumph in his or her opinion over the absurdities of all the rest ...
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... opinion , love , self- devotion ; and they make war and death sacred ; but what for the wretches whom they hire and kill ? The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy . It is as real a loss that others should be low , as that we should ...
... opinion , love , self- devotion ; and they make war and death sacred ; but what for the wretches whom they hire and kill ? The cheapness of man is every day's tragedy . It is as real a loss that others should be low , as that we should ...
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... opinions and hypotheses , and the other section , of truths . " To these four sections , the four operations of the soul corre- spond , conjecture , faith , understanding , reason . As every pool reflects the image of the sun , so every ...
... opinions and hypotheses , and the other section , of truths . " To these four sections , the four operations of the soul corre- spond , conjecture , faith , understanding , reason . As every pool reflects the image of the sun , so every ...
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... opinion shall be announced , and whose biography he has likewise so labored , that the historic facts are lost in the light of Plato's mind . Socrates and Plato are the double star , which the most powerful instruments will not entirely ...
... opinion shall be announced , and whose biography he has likewise so labored , that the historic facts are lost in the light of Plato's mind . Socrates and Plato are the double star , which the most powerful instruments will not entirely ...
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... opinion re- specting the just and unjust . A pitiless disputant , who knows nothing , but the bounds of whose conquering intelligence no man had ever reached ; whose temper was imperturbable ; whose dreadful logic was always leisurely ...
... opinion re- specting the just and unjust . A pitiless disputant , who knows nothing , but the bounds of whose conquering intelligence no man had ever reached ; whose temper was imperturbable ; whose dreadful logic was always leisurely ...
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