Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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... fact ; all the facts of history pre - exist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circum- stances predominant , and the limits of nature give power to but one at a time . A man is the whole encyclopædia of facts . The ...
... fact ; all the facts of history pre - exist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circum- stances predominant , and the limits of nature give power to but one at a time . A man is the whole encyclopædia of facts . The ...
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First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. encyclopædia of facts . The creation of a thou- sand forests is in one acorn , and ... fact narrated must correspond to something in me to be cred- ible or intelligible . We as we read must become Greeks ...
First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. encyclopædia of facts . The creation of a thou- sand forests is in one acorn , and ... fact narrated must correspond to something in me to be cred- ible or intelligible . We as we read must become Greeks ...
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... facts , and instinc- tively we at first hold to it with swords and laws , and wide and complex combinations . The ob- scure consciousness of this fact is the light of all our day , the claim of claims ; the plea for educa- tion , for ...
... facts , and instinc- tively we at first hold to it with swords and laws , and wide and complex combinations . The ob- scure consciousness of this fact is the light of all our day , the claim of claims ; the plea for educa- tion , for ...
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... fact that befalls , —in the running river , and the rustling corn . Praise is looked , homage tendered , love flows from mute nature , from the mountains and the lights of the firma- ment . These hints , dropped as it were from sleep ...
... fact that befalls , —in the running river , and the rustling corn . Praise is looked , homage tendered , love flows from mute nature , from the mountains and the lights of the firma- ment . These hints , dropped as it were from sleep ...
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... fact a fact . Babylon and Troy and Tyre and even early Rome are passing already into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the Sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have ...
... fact a fact . Babylon and Troy and Tyre and even early Rome are passing already into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the Sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have ...
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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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