Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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... fact ; all the facts of history pre - exist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circumstances pre- dominant , and the limits of nature give power to but one at a time . A man is the whole encyclo pædia of facts . The ...
... fact ; all the facts of history pre - exist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circumstances pre- dominant , and the limits of nature give power to but one at a time . A man is the whole encyclo pædia of facts . The ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. pædia of facts . The creation of a thousand for- ests is in one acorn , and Egypt , Greece , Rome ... fact narrated must cor- respond to something in me to be credible or in- telligible . We , as we read , must become ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. pædia of facts . The creation of a thousand for- ests is in one acorn , and Egypt , Greece , Rome ... fact narrated must cor- respond to something in me to be credible or in- telligible . We , as we read , must become ...
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... facts , and instinctively we at first hold to it with swords and laws and wide and complex combinations . The obscure consciousness of this fact is the light of all our day , the claim of claims ; the plea for education , for justice ...
... facts , and instinctively we at first hold to it with swords and laws and wide and complex combinations . The obscure consciousness of this fact is the light of all our day , the claim of claims ; the plea for education , for justice ...
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... hears the commendation , not of himself , but , more sweet , of that character he seeks , in every word that is said concerning character , yea , further , in every fact that befalls , -in the running river and the 10 History .
... hears the commendation , not of himself , but , more sweet , of that character he seeks , in every word that is said concerning character , yea , further , in every fact that befalls , -in the running river and the 10 History .
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. fact that befalls , -in the running river and the rustling corn . Praise is looked , homage ... facts yield their secret sense , and poetry and annals are alike . History . II.
Ralph Waldo Emerson. fact that befalls , -in the running river and the rustling corn . Praise is looked , homage ... facts yield their secret sense , and poetry and annals are alike . History . II.
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