Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1892 - 322 pages |
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Page 14
... circumstances should also have worked , the prob- lem is then solved ; his thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all like a creative soul , with satisfaction , and they live again ...
... circumstances should also have worked , the prob- lem is then solved ; his thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all like a creative soul , with satisfaction , and they live again ...
Page 15
... circumstance . Every chemical sub- stance , every plant , every animal in its growth , teaches the unity of cause , the variety of appear- ance . Why , being as we are surrounded by this all- creating nature , soft and fluid as a cloud ...
... circumstance . Every chemical sub- stance , every plant , every animal in its growth , teaches the unity of cause , the variety of appear- ance . Why , being as we are surrounded by this all- creating nature , soft and fluid as a cloud ...
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... some- what else or of some other person . Character , reality , reminds you of nothing else . It takes place of the whole creation . The man must be so much that he must make all circumstances indif- ferent , 56 ESSAY II .
... some- what else or of some other person . Character , reality , reminds you of nothing else . It takes place of the whole creation . The man must be so much that he must make all circumstances indif- ferent , 56 ESSAY II .
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First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. much that he must make all circumstances indif- ferent , put all means into the shade . This all great men are and do . Every true man is a cause , a country , and an age ; requires infinite spaces and ...
First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. much that he must make all circumstances indif- ferent , put all means into the shade . This all great men are and do . Every true man is a cause , a country , and an age ; requires infinite spaces and ...
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... circumstances , as it does underlie my present , and will always all cir- cumstance , and what is called life , and what is called death . Life only avails , not the having lived . Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in ...
... circumstances , as it does underlie my present , and will always all cir- cumstance , and what is called life , and what is called death . Life only avails , not the having lived . Power ceases in the instant of repose ; it resides in ...
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