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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... 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 than ...
... 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 than ...
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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 grace ...
... 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 grace ...
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... mind . We are always coming up with the facts that have moved us in history in our private experience and verifying them here . All history becomes subjective ; in other words , there is properly no History , only Biography . Every mind ...
... mind . We are always coming up with the facts that have moved us in history in our private experience and verifying them here . All history becomes subjective ; in other words , there is properly no History , only Biography . Every mind ...
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