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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... mind , is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the record . Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less ...
... mind , is a party to all that is or can be done , for this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the record . Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less ...
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... mind wrote history and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the ...
... mind wrote history and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the ...
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... mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has meaning for you . Stand before each of its tablets and say , " Here is one of my coverings . Under this fantastic , or odious , or graceful ...
... mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has meaning for you . Stand before each of its tablets and say , " Here is one of my coverings . Under this fantastic , or odious , or graceful ...
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... mind , the purpose of nature betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts . No anchor , no cable , no fences avail to keep a fact a fact . Babylon ...
... mind , the purpose of nature betrays itself in the use we make of the signal narrations of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts . No anchor , no cable , no fences avail to keep a fact a fact . Babylon ...
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