The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2James R. Osgood and Company, 1876 |
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... 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 ! Every ship that comes ...
... 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 ! Every ship that comes ...
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... thousand times his force . It opens the delicious sense of indeterminate size , and inspires an audacious mental habit . We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder , and a sentence in a book , or a word dropped in conversation , sets ...
... thousand times his force . It opens the delicious sense of indeterminate size , and inspires an audacious mental habit . We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder , and a sentence in a book , or a word dropped in conversation , sets ...
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... thousand eyes , since truth is perceived by this alone . " - 66 He said , Culture ; but he first admitted its basis , and gave immeasurably the first place to advantages of nature . His patrician tastes laid stress on the distinctions ...
... thousand eyes , since truth is perceived by this alone . " - 66 He said , Culture ; but he first admitted its basis , and gave immeasurably the first place to advantages of nature . His patrician tastes laid stress on the distinctions ...
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... thousand times , at length , on virtue , before many companies , and very well , as it appeared to him ; but , at this moment , he cannot even tell what it is , this cramp - fish of a Socrates has so bewitched him . - This hard - headed ...
... thousand times , at length , on virtue , before many companies , and very well , as it appeared to him ; but , at this moment , he cannot even tell what it is , this cramp - fish of a Socrates has so bewitched him . - This hard - headed ...
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... thousands of births , ” having beheld the things which are here , those which are in heaven , and those which are beneath , there is nothing of which she has not gained the knowledge : no wonder that she is able to recollect , in regard ...
... thousands of births , ” having beheld the things which are here , those which are in heaven , and those which are beneath , there is nothing of which she has not gained the knowledge : no wonder that she is able to recollect , in regard ...
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