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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... 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 . " • 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 of ...
... thousand eyes , since truth is perceived by this alone . " • 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 of ...
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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 ...
... 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 ...
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... in the world and now , when the royal and ducal Frederics , Cristierns , and Bruns- wicks , of that day , have slid into oblivion , he begins to spread : himself into the minds of thousands . As happens in SWEDENBORG ; OR , THE MYSTIC . 53.
... in the world and now , when the royal and ducal Frederics , Cristierns , and Bruns- wicks , of that day , have slid into oblivion , he begins to spread : himself into the minds of thousands . As happens in SWEDENBORG ; OR , THE MYSTIC . 53.
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