The Essay on Self-relianceThe Roycrofters, 1908 - 82 pages |
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Page 43
... centuries are conspirators against the sanity and majesty of the soul . Time and space are but physiological colors which the eye maketh , but the soul is light ; where it is , is day ; where it was , is night ; and history is an ...
... centuries are conspirators against the sanity and majesty of the soul . Time and space are but physiological colors which the eye maketh , but the soul is light ; where it is , is day ; where it was , is night ; and history is an ...
Page 47
... is a perceiving that Truth and Right are . Hence it becomes a Tranquillity out of the knowing that all things go well . Vast spaces of nature ; the Atlantic Ocean , the South Sea ; vast intervals of time , years , centuries , are of 47.
... is a perceiving that Truth and Right are . Hence it becomes a Tranquillity out of the knowing that all things go well . Vast spaces of nature ; the Atlantic Ocean , the South Sea ; vast intervals of time , years , centuries , are of 47.
Page 48
Ralph Waldo Emerson. intervals of time , years , centuries , are of no account . Self- This which I think and feel , under- Reliance lay that former state of life and cir- cumstances , as it does underlie my present , and will always all ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. intervals of time , years , centuries , are of no account . Self- This which I think and feel , under- Reliance lay that former state of life and cir- cumstances , as it does underlie my present , and will always all ...
Page 75
... . A singular equality may be observed between the great men of the first and of the last ages ; nor can all the science , art , religion and philosophy of the Nineteenth Century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes 75.
... . A singular equality may be observed between the great men of the first and of the last ages ; nor can all the science , art , religion and philosophy of the Nineteenth Century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes 75.
Page 76
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Nineteenth Century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes , Self- three or four centuries ago . Not in Reliance time is the race progressive . Pho- cion , Socrates , Anaxagoras , Diog- enes , are great ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Nineteenth Century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes , Self- three or four centuries ago . Not in Reliance time is the race progressive . Pho- cion , Socrates , Anaxagoras , Diog- enes , are great ...
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