Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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... live all history in his own person . He must sit at home with might and main , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world ; he must ...
... live all history in his own person . He must sit at home with might and main , and not suffer himself to be bullied by kings or empires , but know that he is greater than all the geography and all the government of the world ; he must ...
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... live , it will not know . What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipu lar convenience , it will lose all the good of verify . ing for itself , by means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere or other , some time ...
... live , it will not know . What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipu lar convenience , it will lose all the good of verify . ing for itself , by means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere or other , some time ...
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... live again to the mind , or are now . We A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done by us . Surely it was by man , but we find it not in our man . But we apply ourselves to the history of its production . put ...
... live again to the mind , or are now . We A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us , and not done by us . Surely it was by man , but we find it not in our man . But we apply ourselves to the history of its production . put ...
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... live holily , their own piety explains every fact , every word . How easily these old worships of Moses , of Zoroaster , of Menu , of Socrates , domesticate themselves in the mind . I cannot find any antiq- uity in them . They are mine ...
... live holily , their own piety explains every fact , every word . How easily these old worships of Moses , of Zoroaster , of Menu , of Socrates , domesticate themselves in the mind . I cannot find any antiq- uity in them . They are mine ...
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... live apart from him , and inde- pendent of him . The Prometheus Vinctus is the romance of skepticism . Not less true to all time are all the details of that stately apologue . Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus , said the poets . Every ...
... live apart from him , and inde- pendent of him . The Prometheus Vinctus is the romance of skepticism . Not less true to all time are all the details of that stately apologue . Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus , said the poets . Every ...
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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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