Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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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 Shakspeare's strain . ESSAY I. History . THERE is one mind common to.
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 Shakspeare's strain . ESSAY I. History . THERE is one mind common to.
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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 whole estate ...
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 whole estate ...
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... common origin of very diverse works ? It is the spirit and not the fact that is identical . By descending far down into the depths of the soul , and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills , the artist attains the ...
... common origin of very diverse works ? It is the spirit and not the fact that is identical . By descending far down into the depths of the soul , and not primarily by a painful acquisition of many manual skills , the artist attains the ...
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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- est hearer . Hence evidently the tripod , the priest , the priestess inspired by the divine af- flatus . Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual peo- ple . They cannot unite Him to history , or rec- concile Him with themselves ...
... common- est hearer . Hence evidently the tripod , the priest , the priestess inspired by the divine af- flatus . Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual peo- ple . They cannot unite Him to history , or rec- concile Him with themselves ...
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