The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In 2 Volumes. [Inhalt. Vol. I: Miscellanies. - Essays. Vol. II: Representative Men. - English Traits. - Conduct of Life.]. II, Volume 2Fields, Osgood, & Company, 1870 |
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... PLATO : NEW READINGS 3 II . PLATO ; OR , THE PHILOSOPHER 21 43 III . SWEDENBORG ; OR , THE MYSTIC . 49 IV . MONTAIGNE ; OR , THE SCEPTIC 79 V. SHAKESPEARE ; OR , THE POET 101 VI . NAPOLEON ; OR , THE MAN OF THE WORLD 119 VII . GOETHE ...
... PLATO : NEW READINGS 3 II . PLATO ; OR , THE PHILOSOPHER 21 43 III . SWEDENBORG ; OR , THE MYSTIC . 49 IV . MONTAIGNE ; OR , THE SCEPTIC 79 V. SHAKESPEARE ; OR , THE POET 101 VI . NAPOLEON ; OR , THE MAN OF THE WORLD 119 VII . GOETHE ...
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... Plato , " to choose those who can , without aid from the eyes , or any other sense , proceed to truth and to being . " Foremost among these activities , are the sum- mersaults , spells , and resurrections wrought by the imagina- tion ...
... Plato , " to choose those who can , without aid from the eyes , or any other sense , proceed to truth and to being . " Foremost among these activities , are the sum- mersaults , spells , and resurrections wrought by the imagina- tion ...
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... Plato , but to the idea , to which also Plato was debtor . I must not forget that we have a special debt to a single class . Life is a scale of degrees . Between rank and rank of our great men are wide intervals . Mankind have , in all ...
... Plato , but to the idea , to which also Plato was debtor . I must not forget that we have a special debt to a single class . Life is a scale of degrees . Between rank and rank of our great men are wide intervals . Mankind have , in all ...
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... he that should marshal us the way we were going . There is no end to his aid . Without Plato , we should almost lose our faith in the possibility of a reasonable book . We seem to want but one , but we want USES OF GREAT MEN . 15.
... he that should marshal us the way we were going . There is no end to his aid . Without Plato , we should almost lose our faith in the possibility of a reasonable book . We seem to want but one , but we want USES OF GREAT MEN . 15.
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... he lives , to scatter the seeds of science and of song , that climate , corn , animals , men , may be milder , and the germs of love and benefit may be multiplied . II . PLATO ; OR , THE PHILOSOPHER . PLATO 20 REPRESENTATIVE MEN .
... he lives , to scatter the seeds of science and of song , that climate , corn , animals , men , may be milder , and the germs of love and benefit may be multiplied . II . PLATO ; OR , THE PHILOSOPHER . PLATO 20 REPRESENTATIVE MEN .
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