Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1895 - 290 pages |
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... Series Ralph 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.
... Series Ralph 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.
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... star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours should be instructed by the ages , and the ages explained by the hours . Of the universal ...
... star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours should be instructed by the ages , and the ages explained by the hours . Of the universal ...
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... stars , rocks , mountains , and waves , I feel time passing away as an ebbing sea . I feel the eternity of man , the identity of his thought . The Greek had , it seems , the same fellow beings as I. The sun and moon , water and fire ...
... stars , rocks , mountains , and waves , I feel time passing away as an ebbing sea . I feel the eternity of man , the identity of his thought . The Greek had , it seems , the same fellow beings as I. The sun and moon , water and fire ...
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... stars and all the recorded benefits of heaven and earth . Is there somewhat overweening in this claim ? Then I reject all I have written , for what is the use of pretend- ing to know what we know not ? But it is the fault of our ...
... stars and all the recorded benefits of heaven and earth . Is there somewhat overweening in this claim ? Then I reject all I have written , for what is the use of pretend- ing to know what we know not ? But it is the fault of our ...
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... stars and all the recorded benefits of heaven and earth . Is there somewhat overweening in this claim ? Then I reject all I have written , for what is the use of pretending to know what we know not ? But it is the fault of our rhetoric ...
... stars and all the recorded benefits of heaven and earth . Is there somewhat overweening in this claim ? Then I reject all I have written , for what is the use of pretending to know what we know not ? But it is the fault of our rhetoric ...
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