Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page xxxi
... once to draw to itself the sky as its temple , the sun as its cradle . Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man , only let his thoughts be of equal scope . Willingly does she follow his steps with the rose and the violet , and bend ...
... once to draw to itself the sky as its temple , the sun as its cradle . Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man , only let his thoughts be of equal scope . Willingly does she follow his steps with the rose and the violet , and bend ...
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... once with reciting half a dozen hexameter lines of Julius Cæsar's ! -from Donatus , he said . He glorified Lord Chester- field more than was necessary , and undervalued Burke , and undervalued Socrates ; designated as three of the ...
... once with reciting half a dozen hexameter lines of Julius Cæsar's ! -from Donatus , he said . He glorified Lord Chester- field more than was necessary , and undervalued Burke , and undervalued Socrates ; designated as three of the ...
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... once been a Unitarian , and knew what quackery it was . He had been called " the rising star of Unitarianism . " ' He went on defining , or rather refining : ' The Trinitarian doctrine was realism ; the idea of God was not essential ...
... once been a Unitarian , and knew what quackery it was . He had been called " the rising star of Unitarianism . " ' He went on defining , or rather refining : ' The Trinitarian doctrine was realism ; the idea of God was not essential ...
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... once came to see him , and glancing towards this , said , " Well , you have got a picture ! " thinking it the work of an old master ; afterwards , Montague , still talking with his back to the canvas , put up his hand and touched it ...
... once came to see him , and glancing towards this , said , " Well , you have got a picture ! " thinking it the work of an old master ; afterwards , Montague , still talking with his back to the canvas , put up his hand and touched it ...
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... once into an acquaintance with his Lars and Lemurs , and it was very pleasant to learn what was predestined to be a pretty mythology . Few were the objects and lonely the man , not a person to speak to within sixteen miles except the ...
... once into an acquaintance with his Lars and Lemurs , and it was very pleasant to learn what was predestined to be a pretty mythology . Few were the objects and lonely the man , not a person to speak to within sixteen miles except the ...
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