Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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Page 12
... heaven an immor- tal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way . " What is history , " said Na- poleon , " but a fable agreed upon ? " This life of ours is stuck round with Egypt , Greece , Gaul , England , War ...
... heaven an immor- tal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way . " What is history , " said Na- poleon , " but a fable agreed upon ? " This life of ours is stuck round with Egypt , Greece , Gaul , England , War ...
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... heaven had sent its insane angels into our world as to an asylum , and here they will break out in their native music and utter at intervals the words they have heard in heaven ; then the mad fit returns and they mope and wallow like ...
... heaven had sent its insane angels into our world as to an asylum , and here they will break out in their native music and utter at intervals the words they have heard in heaven ; then the mad fit returns and they mope and wallow like ...
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... heaven - facing speakers . Ah , brother , hold fast to the man and awe the beast ; stop the ebb of thy soul , -ebbing downward into the forms into whose habits thou hast now for many years slid . As near and proper to us is also that ...
... heaven - facing speakers . Ah , brother , hold fast to the man and awe the beast ; stop the ebb of thy soul , -ebbing downward into the forms into whose habits thou hast now for many years slid . As near and proper to us is also that ...
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... discovery of new lands , the opening of new sciences and new regions in man . He shall be the priest of Pan , and bring with him into humble cottages the blessing of the morning stars , and all the recorded benefits of heaven 36 History .
... discovery of new lands , the opening of new sciences and new regions in man . He shall be the priest of Pan , and bring with him into humble cottages the blessing of the morning stars , and all the recorded benefits of heaven 36 History .
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. morning stars , and all the recorded benefits of heaven and earth . Is there somewhat overweening in this claim ? Then I reject all I have written , for what is the use of pretending to know what we know not ? But it ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. morning stars , and all the recorded benefits of heaven and earth . Is there somewhat overweening in this claim ? Then I reject all I have written , for what is the use of pretending to know what we know not ? But it ...
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