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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... heart precisely as they meet mine . Then the vaunted distinction between Greek and English , between Classic and Romantic schools seems superficial and pedantic . When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me , -when a truth that ...
... heart precisely as they meet mine . Then the vaunted distinction between Greek and English , between Classic and Romantic schools seems superficial and pedantic . When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me , -when a truth that ...
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... heart and soul of the commonest hearer . Hence , evidently , the tripod , the priest , the priestess inspired by the divine afflatus . Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual people . They cannot unite him to history or reconcile him ...
... heart and soul of the commonest hearer . Hence , evidently , the tripod , the priest , the priestess inspired by the divine afflatus . Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual people . They cannot unite him to history or reconcile him ...
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... heart go , as it were , highways to the heart of every object in nature , to reduce it under the dominion of man . A man is a bundle of relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . All his faculties refer to ...
... heart go , as it were , highways to the heart of every object in nature , to reduce it under the dominion of man . A man is a bundle of relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . All his faculties refer to ...
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... heart , is true for all men , -that is genius . Speak your latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense ; for always the inmost becomes the outmost , -and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last ...
... heart , is true for all men , -that is genius . Speak your latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense ; for always the inmost becomes the outmost , -and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last ...
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