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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... means , culture , and limits ; and they yielded their place to other geniuses . Happy , if a few names rain so high , that we have not been able to read them nearer , and age and comparison have not robbed them of a ray . But , at last ...
... means , culture , and limits ; and they yielded their place to other geniuses . Happy , if a few names rain so high , that we have not been able to read them nearer , and age and comparison have not robbed them of a ray . But , at last ...
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... means , or executive deity . - Each student adheres , by temperament and by habit , to the first or to the second of these gods of the mind . By religion , he tends to unity ; by intellect , or by the senses , to the many . A too rapid ...
... means , or executive deity . - Each student adheres , by temperament and by habit , to the first or to the second of these gods of the mind . By religion , he tends to unity ; by intellect , or by the senses , to the many . A too rapid ...
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... means . Plato , lover of limits , loved the illimitable , saw the enlargement and nobility which come from truth itself and good itself , and attempted , as if on the part of the human intellect , once for all , to do it adequate homage ...
... means . Plato , lover of limits , loved the illimitable , saw the enlargement and nobility which come from truth itself and good itself , and attempted , as if on the part of the human intellect , once for all , to do it adequate homage ...
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... means , he was able , in the direct way , and without envy , to avail himself of the wit and weight of Socrates , to which unquestionably his own debt was great ; and these derived again their principal advantage from the perfect art of ...
... means , he was able , in the direct way , and without envy , to avail himself of the wit and weight of Socrates , to which unquestionably his own debt was great ; and these derived again their principal advantage from the perfect art of ...
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... mean , but nature makes that mean , " or , " He that can endure To follow with allegiance a fallen lord , Does conquer him that did his master conquer , And earns a place in the story . " Hamlet is a pure Platonist , and ' t is the ...
... mean , but nature makes that mean , " or , " He that can endure To follow with allegiance a fallen lord , Does conquer him that did his master conquer , And earns a place in the story . " Hamlet is a pure Platonist , and ' t is the ...
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