Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1892 - 322 pages |
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First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. I am owner of the sphere , Of the seven stars and the solar year , Of Cæsar's hand , and Plato's brain , Of Lord Christ's heart , and Shakespeare's strain . ESSAY I. HISTORY . THERE is one mind common to.
First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. I am owner of the sphere , Of the seven stars and the solar year , Of Cæsar's hand , and Plato's brain , Of Lord Christ's heart , and Shakespeare's strain . ESSAY I. HISTORY . THERE is one mind common to.
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First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. ESSAY I. HISTORY . THERE is one mind common to all individual men . Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same . He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the ...
First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. ESSAY I. HISTORY . THERE is one mind common to all individual men . Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same . He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the ...
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... common origin of very diverse works ? It is the spirit and not the fact that is identical . By descend- ing far down into the depths of the soul , and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many man- ual skills , the artist attains ...
... common origin of very diverse works ? It is the spirit and not the fact that is identical . By descend- ing far down into the depths of the soul , and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many man- ual skills , the artist attains ...
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... common architectural scroll to abut a tower . By simply throwing ourselves into new circum- stances we do continually invent anew the orders and the ornaments of architecture , as we see how each people merely decorated its primitive ...
... common architectural scroll to abut a tower . By simply throwing ourselves into new circum- stances we do continually invent anew the orders and the ornaments of architecture , as we see how each people merely decorated its primitive ...
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... common day's work ; but the things of life are the same to both : the sum total of both is the same . Why all this deference to Alfred , and Scanderbeg , and Gus- tavus ? Suppose they were virtuous ; did they wear out virtue ? As great ...
... common day's work ; but the things of life are the same to both : the sum total of both is the same . Why all this deference to Alfred , and Scanderbeg , and Gus- tavus ? Suppose they were virtuous ; did they wear out virtue ? As great ...
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