The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2James R. Osgood and Company, 1876 |
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... seen in the duration which is necessary to complete the career of each ; even more swiftly the seeming injustice disappears , when we ascend to the central identity of all the individuals , and know that they are made of the substance ...
... seen in the duration which is necessary to complete the career of each ; even more swiftly the seeming injustice disappears , when we ascend to the central identity of all the individuals , and know that they are made of the substance ...
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... seen in perspective ; the town - meeting , the ballot - box , the newspaper and cheap press . Meantime , Plato , in Egypt and in Eastern pilgrimages , im- bibed the idea of one Deity , in which all things are absorbed . The unity of ...
... seen in perspective ; the town - meeting , the ballot - box , the newspaper and cheap press . Meantime , Plato , in Egypt and in Eastern pilgrimages , im- bibed the idea of one Deity , in which all things are absorbed . The unity of ...
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... seen from shore , shore seen from sea ; the taste of two metals in contact ; and our enlarged powers at the approach and at the departure of a friend ; the experience of poetic creativeness , which is not found in stay- ing at home ...
... seen from shore , shore seen from sea ; the taste of two metals in contact ; and our enlarged powers at the approach and at the departure of a friend ; the experience of poetic creativeness , which is not found in stay- ing at home ...
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... seen , would ravish us with its perfect reality . He has the same regard to it as the source of excel- lence in works of art . " When an artificer , in the fabrication of any work , looks to that which always subsists according to the ...
... seen , would ravish us with its perfect reality . He has the same regard to it as the source of excel- lence in works of art . " When an artificer , in the fabrication of any work , looks to that which always subsists according to the ...
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... seen , when seen with the most respect . His sense deepens , his merits multiply , with study . When we say , here is a fine collection of fables ; or , when we praise the style ; or the common sense ; or arithmetic ; we speak as boys ...
... seen , when seen with the most respect . His sense deepens , his merits multiply , with study . When we say , here is a fine collection of fables ; or , when we praise the style ; or the common sense ; or arithmetic ; we speak as boys ...
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