Essays, Volume 1H.M. Caldwell Company, 1870 |
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Page 11
... sense than what he is doing to - day . The world exists for the education of each man . There is no age or state of society or mode of action in history to which there is not somewhat corresponding in his life . Every thing tends in a ...
... sense than what he is doing to - day . The world exists for the education of each man . There is no age or state of society or mode of action in history to which there is not somewhat corresponding in his life . Every thing tends in a ...
Page 12
Ralph Waldo Emerson. secret sense , and poetry and annals are alike . The instinct of the mind , the purpose of nature , betrays itself in the use we make of signal narra- tions of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. secret sense , and poetry and annals are alike . The instinct of the mind , the purpose of nature , betrays itself in the use we make of signal narra- tions of history . Time dissipates to shining ether the solid ...
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... senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar , a marble Centaur , the peristyle of the Parthenon , and the last actions of Phocion ? Yet do these varied external ex- pressions proceed from one national mind . Every one must have ...
... senses what more unlike than an ode of Pindar , a marble Centaur , the peristyle of the Parthenon , and the last actions of Phocion ? Yet do these varied external ex- pressions proceed from one national mind . Every one must have ...
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... senses , -of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . In it existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules , Phoebus , and Jove ; not like the forms abounding in the streets of ...
... senses , -of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . In it existed those human forms which supplied the sculptor with his models of Hercules , Phoebus , and Jove ; not like the forms abounding in the streets of ...
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... sense without knowing it , before yet the reflective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind . Our ... senses , perfect in their health , with the finest physical organization in the world . Adults acted with the simplicity ...
... sense without knowing it , before yet the reflective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind . Our ... senses , perfect in their health , with the finest physical organization in the world . Adults acted with the simplicity ...
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