Essays: First SeriesPhillips, Sampson, 1854 - 333 pages |
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First 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 . ESSAY I. HISTORY . THERE is one mind common to.
First 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 . ESSAY I. HISTORY . THERE is one mind common to.
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... heart precisely as they meet mine . Then the vaunted distinction between Greek and English , between Classic and Romantic schools , seems superficial and pedantic . When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me , — when a truth that ...
... heart precisely as they meet mine . Then the vaunted distinction between Greek and English , between Classic and Romantic schools , seems superficial and pedantic . When a thought of Plato becomes a thought to me , — when a truth that ...
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... heart and soul of the commonest hearer . Hence , evidently , the tripod , the priest , the priestess inspired by the divine afflatus . Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual people . They cannot unite him to history , or reconcile him ...
... heart and soul of the commonest hearer . Hence , evidently , the tripod , the priest , the priestess inspired by the divine afflatus . Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual people . They cannot unite him to history , or reconcile him ...
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... heart go , as it were , highways to the heart of every object in nature , to reduce it under the dominion of man . A man is a bundle of relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . His faculties refer to na ...
... heart go , as it were , highways to the heart of every object in nature , to reduce it under the dominion of man . A man is a bundle of relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . His faculties refer to na ...
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... heart is true for all men , that is genius . Speak your latent conviction , and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost , and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last ...
... heart is true for all men , that is genius . Speak your latent conviction , and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost , and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last ...
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