Essays: First SeriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 - 445 pages |
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... genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history . Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the be- ginning to embody every faculty , every thought ...
... genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history . Without hurry , without rest , the human spirit goes forth from the be- ginning to embody every faculty , every thought ...
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... genius , - anywhere lose our ear , any- where make us feel that we intrude , that this is for better men ; but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of ...
... genius , - anywhere lose our ear , any- where make us feel that we intrude , that this is for better men ; but rather is it true that in their grandest strokes we feel most at home . All that Shakspeare says of the king , yonder slip of ...
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... genius and creative principle of each and of all eras , in my own mind . We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience and bay verifying them here . All history becomes sub- jective HISTORY 9.
... genius and creative principle of each and of all eras , in my own mind . We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience and bay verifying them here . All history becomes sub- jective HISTORY 9.
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... genius , obeying its law , knows how to play with them as a young child plays with graybeards and in churches . Genius studies the causal thought , and far back in the womb of things sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge ...
... genius , obeying its law , knows how to play with them as a young child plays with graybeards and in churches . Genius studies the causal thought , and far back in the womb of things sees the rays parting from one orb , that diverge ...
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... genius . We have the civil history of that people , as Herodo- tus , Thucydides , Xenophon , and Plutarch have given it ; a very sufficient account of what man- ner of persons they were and what they did . We have the same national mind ...
... genius . We have the civil history of that people , as Herodo- tus , Thucydides , Xenophon , and Plutarch have given it ; a very sufficient account of what man- ner of persons they were and what they did . We have the same national mind ...
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action Amadis de Gaul appear beauty behold better Bonduca Boston character CHARLES ELIOT NORTON circle conversation divine doctrine earth Epaminondas essay eternal evil experience fact fear feel friendship genius George Willis Cooke give hand heart heaven Heraclitus Heroism hour human intellect John Sterling lecture less light live look man's ment mind moral nature ness never noble object Over-Soul painted pass Perceforest perfect persons Phidias Phocion Plato Plotinus Plutarch Poems poet poetry Polycrates prudence Pyrrhonism Ralph Waldo Emerson relations religion sculpture secret seems sense Shakspeare society Sophocles soul speak spirit stand sweet Synesius talent teach thee things thou thought tion to-day true truth ture universal virtue WALDO EMERSON whilst whole William Ellery Channing wisdom words write Xenophon young youth