Essays, First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 343 pages |
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Page 14
... passing already into fiction . 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 ...
... passing already into fiction . 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 ...
Page 16
... ends to which he himself should also have worked , the problem is solved ; his thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live 16 HISTORY .
... ends to which he himself should also have worked , the problem is solved ; his thought lives along the whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live 16 HISTORY .
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us . Surely it was by man , but we find it not in our man ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us . Surely it was by man , but we find it not in our man ...
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... passes personally through a Grecian pe- riod . The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature , the perfection of the senses , — of the spirit- ual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . In it existed those human forms which ...
... passes personally through a Grecian pe- riod . The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature , the perfection of the senses , — of the spirit- ual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . In it existed those human forms which ...
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... 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. moon , water and fire , met his heart precisely as they meet mine . Then the vaunted ...
... 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. moon , water and fire , met his heart precisely as they meet mine . Then the vaunted ...
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