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" There is at this moment, there is for me an utterance bare and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias, or trowel of the Egyptians, or the pen of Moses or Dante, but different from all these. Not possibly will the soul, all rich, all eloquent,... "
Essays, First Series - Page 82
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 290 pages
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Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...utterance bare and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias, or trowel of the Egyptians, or the pen of Moses, or Dante, but different from all these....thousand-cloven tongue, deign to repeat itself; but if I can hear what these patriarchs say, surely I can reply to them in the same pitch of voice ; for the...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...utterance bare and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias, or trowel of the Egyptians, or the pen of Moses, or Dante, but different from all these....thousand-cloven tongue, deign to repeat itself ; but if I can hear what these patriarchs say, surely I can reply to them in the same pitch of voice : for the...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...utterance bare and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias, or trowel of the Egyptians, or the pen of Moses, or Dante, but different from all these....possibly will the soul all rich, all eloquent, with thousand- cloven tongue, deign to repeat itself; but if I can hear what these patriarchs say, surely...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...utterance bare and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias, or trowel of the Egyptians, or the pen of Moses or Dante, but different from all these....thousand-cloven tongue, deign to repeat itself; but if I can hear what these patriarchs say, surely I can reply to them in the same pitch of voice : for the...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...utterance bare and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias, or trowel of the Egyptians, or the pen of Moses, or Dante, but different from all these....thousand-cloven tongue, deign to repeat itself; but if I can hear what these patriarchs say, surely I can reply to them in the same pitch of voice : for the...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...utterance bare and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias, or trowel of the Egyptians, or the pen of Moses, or Dante, but different from all these....thousand-cloven tongue, deign to repeat itself; but if I can hear what these patriarchs Bay, surely I can reply to them in the same pitch of voice : for the...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...utterance bare and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias, or trowel of the Egyptians, or the pen of Moses, or Dante, but different from all these....thousand-cloven tongue, deign to repeat itself; but if I can hear what these patriarchs say, surely I can reply to them in the same pitch of voice : for the...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 3

1849 - 448 pages
...utterance bare and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias, or the trowel of the Egyptians, or the pen of Moses, or Dante, but different from all these....thousand-cloven tongue, deign to repeat itself ; but if I can hear what these patriarchs say, surely I can reply to them in the same pitch of voice ; for the...
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The Prose Writers of America: With a Survey of the Intellectual History ...

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 592 pages
...utterance bare and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias, or trowel of tile Egyptians, or the pen of Moses, or Dante, but different from all these....thousand-cloven tongue, deign to repeat itself; but if I can hear what these patriarchs say, surely I can reply to them in the same pitch of voice : for the...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...utterance brave and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias, or trowel of the Egyptians, or the pen of Moses, or Dante, but different from all these....; for the ear and the tongue are two organs of one natupe. Abide in the simple 'and noble regions of thy life, obey thy heart, and thou shalt reproduce...
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