Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1895 - 290 pages |
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... Who cares what the fact was , when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way . 66 What is His- tory , " said Napoleon , " but a fable HISTORY . .15.
... Who cares what the fact was , when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way . 66 What is His- tory , " said Napoleon , " but a fable HISTORY . .15.
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First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. tory , " said Napoleon , " but a fable agreed upon ? " This life of ours is stuck round with Egypt , Greece , Gaul , England , War , Colonization , Church , Court , and Com- merce , as with so many ...
First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. tory , " said Napoleon , " but a fable agreed upon ? " This life of ours is stuck round with Egypt , Greece , Gaul , England , War , Colonization , Church , Court , and Com- merce , as with so many ...
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... fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will . The adamant streams into soft but precise form before it , and whilst I look at it , its outline and texture are ...
... fables with one moral . Through the bruteness and toughness of matter , a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will . The adamant streams into soft but precise form before it , and whilst I look at it , its outline and texture are ...
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... fable of Æsop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer , of Scott , and verifies them with his own head and hands . The beautiful fables of the Greeks , being proper crea- tions of the imagination and not of the fancy , are uni ...
... fable of Æsop , of Homer , of Hafiz , of Ariosto , of Chaucer , of Scott , and verifies them with his own head and hands . The beautiful fables of the Greeks , being proper crea- tions of the imagination and not of the fancy , are uni ...
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... fable . I would it were ; but men and women are only half human . Ev- ery animal of the barn - yard , the field , and the forest , of the earth and of the waters that are under the earth , has contrived to get a footing and to leave the ...
... fable . I would it were ; but men and women are only half human . Ev- ery animal of the barn - yard , the field , and the forest , of the earth and of the waters that are under the earth , has contrived to get a footing and to leave the ...
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