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" ... which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught... "
The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time - Page 1619
edited by - 1900
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...man is an unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he- could net borrow. If any body will tell me whom the great man imitates in the original...will tell him who else than himself can teach him. Shakspeare will never be made by the study of Shakspeare. Do that which is assigned thee, and thou...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton ? Every great man is an unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow. If any body will tell me whom the great man imitates in the original crisis when he performs a great act,...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]

1842 - 740 pages
...revolve by the gravitation of spirits. Who has less, I rule with like facility.' — Essay ii., p. 70. ' The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow. * * * Shakspeare will never be made by the study of Shakspeare.' — Ib., p. 84. This is an orthodox...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 12; Volume 76

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1842 - 782 pages
...revolve by the gravitation of spirits. Who has less, I rule with like facility.' — Essay ii., p. 70. ' The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow. * * * Shakspenre will never be made by the study of Slmkspcare.' — Ib., p. 84. This is an orthodox...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton ? Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow. Shakspeare will never be made by the study of Shakspeare. Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton ? Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that...will tell him who else than himself can teach him. Shakspeare will never be made by the study of Shakspeare. Do that which is assigned thee, and thou...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton ? Every great man is an unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow. If any body will tell me whom the great man imitates in the original crisis when he performs a great act,...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton. Every great man is an unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow. If any body will tell me whom the great man imitates in the original crisis when he performs a great act,...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton. Every great man is an unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow. If any body will tell me whom the great man imitates in the original crisis when he performs a great act,...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 356 pages
...master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton ? Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow. Shakspeare will never be made by the study of Shakspeare. Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot...
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