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What makes the majesty of the heroes of the senate and the field , which so fills the imagination ? The consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind . There they all stand and shed an united light on the advancing actor ...
What makes the majesty of the heroes of the senate and the field , which so fills the imagination ? The consciousness of a train of great days and victories behind . There they all stand and shed an united light on the advancing actor ...
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In history , our imagination makes fools of us , plays us false . Kingdom and lordship , power and estate are a gaudier vocabulary than private John a and Edward in a small house and common day's work 36.
In history , our imagination makes fools of us , plays us false . Kingdom and lordship , power and estate are a gaudier vocabulary than private John a and Edward in a small house and common day's work 36.
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for all educated Americans se They who made England , Italy or Greece venerable in the imagination , did so Selfnot by rambling round creation as a Reliance moth round a lamp , but by sticking fast where they were like an axis of the ...
for all educated Americans se They who made England , Italy or Greece venerable in the imagination , did so Selfnot by rambling round creation as a Reliance moth round a lamp , but by sticking fast where they were like an axis of the ...
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| Title | The Essay on Self-reliance |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | The Roycrofters, 1908 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 8 Dec 2015 |
| Length | 82 pages |
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