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There is no age or state of society or mode of action in history , to which there is not somewhat . corresponding in his life . Everything tends in a most wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and yield ...
There is no age or state of society or mode of action in history , to which there is not somewhat . corresponding in his life . Everything tends in a most wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and yield ...
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given it — a very sufficient account of what manner of persons they were , and what they did . Then we have the same soul expressed for us again in their literature ; in poems , drama , and philosophy : a very complete form .
given it — a very sufficient account of what manner of persons they were , and what they did . Then we have the same soul expressed for us again in their literature ; in poems , drama , and philosophy : a very complete form .
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There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon , and the remains of the earliest Greek art . And there are compositions of the same strain to be found in ...
There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon , and the remains of the earliest Greek art . And there are compositions of the same strain to be found in ...
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Because a soul , living from a great depth of being , awakens in us by its actions and words , by its very looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture , or of pictures , are wont to animate .
Because a soul , living from a great depth of being , awakens in us by its actions and words , by its very looks and manners , the same power and beauty that a gallery of sculpture , or of pictures , are wont to animate .
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A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add . The trivial experience of every day is always verifying some old prediction to us , and converting into things for us also ...
A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add . The trivial experience of every day is always verifying some old prediction to us , and converting into things for us also ...
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| Title | Essays: First Series |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | H. Altemus, 1899 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 6 Oct 2015 |
| Length | 322 pages |
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