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In this action it is genius ; not the privilege of here and there a favorite , but the sound estate of every man . In its essence it is progressive . The book , the college , the school of art , the institution of any kind , stop with ...
In this action it is genius ; not the privilege of here and there a favorite , but the sound estate of every man . In its essence it is progressive . The book , the college , the school of art , the institution of any kind , stop with ...
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This idea has inspired the genius of Goldsmith , Burns , Cowper , and , in a newer time , of Goethe , Wordsworth , and Carlyle . This idea they have differently followed and with various success . In contrast with their writing ...
This idea has inspired the genius of Goldsmith , Burns , Cowper , and , in a newer time , of Goethe , Wordsworth , and Carlyle . This idea they have differently followed and with various success . In contrast with their writing ...
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Genius is its own end , and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within , going abroad only for audience and spectator , as we adapt our voice and phrase to the distance and character of the ear we speak to .
Genius is its own end , and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within , going abroad only for audience and spectator , as we adapt our voice and phrase to the distance and character of the ear we speak to .
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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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