Essays, Volume 2G. Richards, 1901 - 354 pages |
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... give power to but one at a time . A man is the whole encyclopædia of facts . The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn ; and Egypt , Greece , Rome , Gaul , Britain , America , lie folded already in the first man . Epoch after ...
... give power to but one at a time . A man is the whole encyclopædia of facts . The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn ; and Egypt , Greece , Rome , Gaul , Britain , America , lie folded already in the first man . Epoch after ...
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... gives worth to particular men and things . Human life as containing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws derive hence their ultimate reason ; all express more or less dis- tinctly ...
... gives worth to particular men and things . Human life as containing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws derive hence their ultimate reason ; all express more or less dis- tinctly ...
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... gives of himself and his compatriots in the Retreat of the Ten Thousand . ' ' After the army had crossed the river Teleboas in Armenia , there fell much snow , and the troops lay miserably on the ground covered with it . But Xenophon ...
... gives of himself and his compatriots in the Retreat of the Ten Thousand . ' ' After the army had crossed the river Teleboas in Armenia , there fell much snow , and the troops lay miserably on the ground covered with it . But Xenophon ...
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... gives them body to his own imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet is it much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of the same author , for the reason that it operates a wonderful ...
... gives them body to his own imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet is it much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of the same author , for the reason that it operates a wonderful ...
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... give him no peace . It is a deliverance which does not deliver . In the attempt his genius deserts him ; no muse befriends ; no inven- tion , no hope . Trust thyself : every heart vibrates to that iron string 26 EMERSON'S ESSAYS.
... give him no peace . It is a deliverance which does not deliver . In the attempt his genius deserts him ; no muse befriends ; no inven- tion , no hope . Trust thyself : every heart vibrates to that iron string 26 EMERSON'S ESSAYS.
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