Essays, First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 14
... The Garden of Eden , the sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thence- forward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris 14 HISTORY .
... The Garden of Eden , the sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thence- forward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris 14 HISTORY .
Page 15
Ralph Waldo Emerson. hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way . " What is history , " said Napoleon , " but a fable agreed upon ? " This life of ours is stuck round with Egypt , Greece , Gaul ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way . " What is history , " said Napoleon , " but a fable agreed upon ? " This life of ours is stuck round with Egypt , Greece , Gaul ...
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... heaven - facing speakers . Ah ! brother , stop the ebb of thy soul , - ebbing downward into the forms into whose habits thou hast now for many years slid . As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx , who was said to ...
... heaven - facing speakers . Ah ! brother , stop the ebb of thy soul , - ebbing downward into the forms into whose habits thou hast now for many years slid . As near and proper to us is also that old fable of the Sphinx , who was said to ...
Page 41
... , and bring with him into humble cottages the bless- ing of the morning stars , and all the recorded ben- efits of heaven and earth . Is there somewhat overweening in this claim ? - Then I reject all I have written , for HISTORY . 41.
... , and bring with him into humble cottages the bless- ing of the morning stars , and all the recorded ben- efits of heaven and earth . Is there somewhat overweening in this claim ? - Then I reject all I have written , for HISTORY . 41.
Page 79
... heaven seem to them hung on the arch their master built . They cannot imag- ine how you aliens have any right to see , how you can see ; ' It must be somehow that you stole the light from us . ' They do not yet perceive that light ...
... heaven seem to them hung on the arch their master built . They cannot imag- ine how you aliens have any right to see , how you can see ; ' It must be somehow that you stole the light from us . ' They do not yet perceive that light ...
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