Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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... genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history . Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every ...
... genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history . Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every ...
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... genius , anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for our betters , but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes , there we feel most at home . All that Shakespeare says of the king , yonder ...
... genius , anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for our betters , but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes , there we feel most at home . All that Shakespeare says of the king , yonder ...
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... genius and creative principle of each and of all eras in my own mind . We are always coming up with the facts that have moved us in history in our private experi- ence , and verifying them here . All history be comes subjective ; in ...
... genius and creative principle of each and of all eras in my own mind . We are always coming up with the facts that have moved us in history in our private experi- ence , and verifying them here . All history be comes subjective ; in ...
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... genius , obeying its law , knows how to play with them as a young child plays with gray beards and in churches . Genius studies the causal thought , and far back in the womb of things , sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge ...
... genius , obeying its law , knows how to play with them as a young child plays with gray beards and in churches . Genius studies the causal thought , and far back in the womb of things , sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge ...
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... the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius . Thus at first we have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , Plutarch have : given it a very sufficient account of what man- 16 ESSAY I.
... the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius . Thus at first we have the civil history of that people , as Herodotus , Thucydides , Xenophon , Plutarch have : given it a very sufficient account of what man- 16 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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