Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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... private 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.
... private 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.
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... becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian im- itated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian Court in its magnificent era never ...
... becomes fluid and true , and Biography deep and sublime . As the Persian im- itated in the slender shafts and capitals of his architecture the stem and flower of the lotus and palm , so the Persian Court in its magnificent era never ...
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... become the predominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old , but of the natural . The Greeks are not reflective but perfect in their senses , perfect in their health , with the finest phys ...
... become the predominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old , but of the natural . The Greeks are not reflective but perfect in their senses , perfect in their health , with the finest phys ...
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... becomes a thought to me , —when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we two meet in a percep- tion , that our two souls are tinged with the same hue , and do , as it were , run into one ...
... becomes a thought to me , —when a truth that fired the soul of Pindar fires mine , time is no more . When I feel that we two meet in a percep- tion , that our two souls are tinged with the same hue , and do , as it were , run into one ...
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... is a familiar fact explained to the child when he becomes a man , only by seeing that the oppressor of his youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and words and forms , of whose influence he 28 ESSAY I.
... is a familiar fact explained to the child when he becomes a man , only by seeing that the oppressor of his youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and words and forms , of whose influence he 28 ESSAY I.
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| Title | Essays: First Series Volume 2 of Emerson's complete works : Riverside edition |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | H. Altemus, 1899 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 6 Oct 2015 |
| Length | 322 pages |
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