Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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... teaches the unity of cause , the variety of appear- ance . Why , being as we are surrounded by this all- creating nature , soft and fluid as a cloud or the air , should we be such hard pedants , and magnify a few forms ? Why should we ...
... teaches the unity of cause , the variety of appear- ance . Why , being as we are surrounded by this all- creating nature , soft and fluid as a cloud or the air , should we be such hard pedants , and magnify a few forms ? Why should we ...
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... teaches him how Belus was worshipped , and how the pyramids were built , better than the discovery by Champollion of the names of all the workmen and the cost of every tile . He finds Assyria and the Mounds of Cholula at his door , and ...
... teaches him how Belus was worshipped , and how the pyramids were built , better than the discovery by Champollion of the names of all the workmen and the cost of every tile . He finds Assyria and the Mounds of Cholula at his door , and ...
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... teach it in a day . Who knows himself before he has been thrilled with in- dignation at an outrage , or has heard an eloquent tongue , or has shared the throb of thousands in a national exultation or alarm ? No man can ante- * date his ...
... teach it in a day . Who knows himself before he has been thrilled with in- dignation at an outrage , or has heard an eloquent tongue , or has shared the throb of thousands in a national exultation or alarm ? No man can ante- * date his ...
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... teach us to abide by our spontaneous im- pression with good humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side . Else , to - morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have ...
... teach us to abide by our spontaneous im- pression with good humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side . Else , to - morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have ...
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... - dow should interweave that thread or straw he carries in his bill into my web also . We pass what we are . Character teaches above our wills . for Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only 54 ESSAY II .
... - dow should interweave that thread or straw he carries in his bill into my web also . We pass what we are . Character teaches above our wills . for Men imagine that they communicate their virtue or vice only 54 ESSAY II .
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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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