Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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... opinion again , it will solve the problem of the age . The fact narrated must correspond to something in me to be cred- ible or intelligible . We as we read must become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest , and king 8 ESSAY I.
... opinion again , it will solve the problem of the age . The fact narrated must correspond to something in me to be cred- ible or intelligible . We as we read must become Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest , and king 8 ESSAY I.
Page 9
First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest , and king , martyr and executioner , must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall see nothing , learn nothing , keep nothing . What ...
First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest , and king , martyr and executioner , must fasten these images to some reality in our secret experience , or we shall see nothing , learn nothing , keep nothing . What ...
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... king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner , feels to be true of himself . We sympathize in the great moments of history , in the great discoveries , the great re- sistances , the great prosperities of men ; -- because there ...
... king , yonder slip of a boy that reads in the corner , feels to be true of himself . We sympathize in the great moments of history , in the great discoveries , the great re- sistances , the great prosperities of men ; -- because there ...
Page 11
... kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world ; he must transfer the point of view from which history is • commonly read , from Rome and Athens and London to HISTORY . IE.
... kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world ; he must transfer the point of view from which history is • commonly read , from Rome and Athens and London to HISTORY . IE.
Page 58
... kings , who have so magnetized the eyes of na- tions . It has been taught by this colossal sym- bol the mutual reverence that is due from man to man . The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king , the noble , or ...
... kings , who have so magnetized the eyes of na- tions . It has been taught by this colossal sym- bol the mutual reverence that is due from man to man . The joyful loyalty with which men have everywhere suffered the king , the noble , or ...
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