Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1895 - 290 pages |
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Page 10
... Waldo Emerson. I AM Owner of the sphere , Of the seven stars and the solar year , Of Cæsar's hand , and Plato's brain , Of Lord Christ's heart , and Shakspeare's strain . 1 HISTORY . THERE is one mind common to all individual.
... Waldo Emerson. I AM Owner of the sphere , Of the seven stars and the solar year , Of Cæsar's hand , and Plato's brain , Of Lord Christ's heart , and Shakspeare's strain . 1 HISTORY . THERE is one mind common to all individual.
Page 12
... Cæsar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and deprivations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political move- ment has meaning for yon . Stand before each of its tablets and say , ' Under this mask did my 12 ...
... Cæsar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and deprivations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political move- ment has meaning for yon . Stand before each of its tablets and say , ' Under this mask did my 12 ...
Page 55
... Cæsar is born , and for ages after we have a Roman Em- pire . Christ is born , and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his genius , that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of man . An institution is the length- ened ...
... Cæsar is born , and for ages after we have a Roman Em- pire . Christ is born , and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his genius , that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of man . An institution is the length- ened ...
Page 109
... Cæsar and Napoleon ; but the best of their power was in nature , not in them . Men of an extraordinary success , in their honest moments , have always sung , ' Not unto us , not unto us . ' According to the faith of their times , they ...
... Cæsar and Napoleon ; but the best of their power was in nature , not in them . Men of an extraordinary success , in their honest moments , have always sung , ' Not unto us , not unto us . ' According to the faith of their times , they ...
Page 132
... Cæsar , and not the player of Cæsar ; then the selfsame strain of thought , emotion as pure , wit as subtle , motions as swift , mounting , extravagant , and a heart as great , self - suffi- cing , dauntless , which on the waves of its ...
... Cæsar , and not the player of Cæsar ; then the selfsame strain of thought , emotion as pure , wit as subtle , motions as swift , mounting , extravagant , and a heart as great , self - suffi- cing , dauntless , which on the waves of its ...
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