Essays, First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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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 . I. HISTORY . THERE is one mind common to all.
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 . I. HISTORY . THERE is one mind common to all.
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... Cæsar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has meaning for you . Stand before each of its tab- lets and say , ' Under this mask did my ...
... Cæsar Borgia is as much an illustration of the mind's powers and depravations as what has befallen us . Each new law and political movement has meaning for you . Stand before each of its tab- lets and say , ' Under this mask did my ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. low his steps as a train of clients . A man 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 ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. low his steps as a train of clients . A man 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 ...
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... 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 have ...
... 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 have ...
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... 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 - sufficing , 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 - sufficing , dauntless , which on the waves of its ...
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