Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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... experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles ...
... experience . There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles ...
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... experience , or we shall see nothing , learn nothing , keep nothing . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia , s as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement ...
... experience , or we shall see nothing , learn nothing , keep nothing . What befell Asdrubal or Cæsar Borgia , s as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement ...
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... experience of every day is always verifying some old prediction to us , and convert- ing into things for us also the words and signs which we had heard and seen without heed . Let me add a few examples , such as fall within the scope of ...
... experience of every day is always verifying some old prediction to us , and convert- ing into things for us also the words and signs which we had heard and seen without heed . Let me add a few examples , such as fall within the scope of ...
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... experiences of his own . To the sacred history of the world , he has the same key . When the voice of a prophet out of the deeps of antiquity merely echoes to him a senti ment of his infancy , a prayer of his youth , he then pierces to ...
... experiences of his own . To the sacred history of the world , he has the same key . When the voice of a prophet out of the deeps of antiquity merely echoes to him a senti ment of his infancy , a prayer of his youth , he then pierces to ...
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... experience , or guess what faculty or feel- ing a new object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the general statement to ...
... experience , or guess what faculty or feel- ing a new object shall unlock , any more than he can draw to - day the face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the general statement to ...
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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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