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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... heart precisely as they meet mine . Then the vaunted distinction between Greek and Eng- lish , 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 Eng- lish , 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 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 ...
... heart and soul of the 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 ...
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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 natures ...
... 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 natures ...
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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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