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Page 88
The books of an older period will not fit this . Yet hence arises a grave mischief . The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation , the act of thought , is transferred to the record . The poet chanting was felt to be a divine ...
The books of an older period will not fit this . Yet hence arises a grave mischief . The sacredness which attaches to the act of creation , the act of thought , is transferred to the record . The poet chanting was felt to be a divine ...
Page 127
The doctrine of the divine nature being forgotten , a sickness infects and dwarfs the constitution . Once man was all ; now he is an appendage , a nuisance . And because the indwelling Supreme Spirit cannot wholly be got rid of ...
The doctrine of the divine nature being forgotten , a sickness infects and dwarfs the constitution . Once man was all ; now he is an appendage , a nuisance . And because the indwelling Supreme Spirit cannot wholly be got rid of ...
Page 211
He was supposed to be the mouth of a divine wisdom . We rather envied his circumstance than his talent . We too could have gladly prophesied standing in that place . We so quote our Scriptures ; and the Greeks so quoted Homer , Theognis ...
He was supposed to be the mouth of a divine wisdom . We rather envied his circumstance than his talent . We too could have gladly prophesied standing in that place . We so quote our Scriptures ; and the Greeks so quoted Homer , Theognis ...
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| Title | The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1 The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Editor | Edward Waldo Emerson |
| Contributor | Edward Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 9 Feb 2007 |
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