The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 1st seriesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1903 |
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... fact ; all the facts of history preëxist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circumstances predominant , and the limits of nature give power to but one at a time . A man is the whole encyclopædia of facts . The creation of ...
... fact ; all the facts of history preëxist in the mind as laws . Each law in turn is made by circumstances predominant , and the limits of nature give power to but one at a time . A man is the whole encyclopædia of facts . The creation of ...
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... fact in his private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done , and the crises of his life refer to national crises . Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to ...
... fact in his private experience flashes a light on what great bodies of men have done , and the crises of his life refer to national crises . Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind , and when the same thought occurs to ...
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... fact narrated must correspond to something in me to be credible or intelligible . We , as we read , must become . Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , mar- tyr and executioner ; must fasten these images . to some reality in our ...
... fact narrated must correspond to something in me to be credible or intelligible . We , as we read , must become . Greeks , Romans , Turks , priest and king , mar- tyr and executioner ; must fasten these images . to some reality in our ...
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... facts , and instinctively we at first hold to it with swords and laws and wide and complex com- binations . The obscure consciousness of this fact is the light of all our day , the claim of claims ; the plea for education , for justice ...
... facts , and instinctively we at first hold to it with swords and laws and wide and complex com- binations . The obscure consciousness of this fact is the light of all our day , the claim of claims ; the plea for education , for justice ...
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... fact and circum- stance , in the running river and the rustling corn . Praise is looked , homage tendered , love flows , from mute nature , from the mountains and the lights of the firmament . " These hints , dropped as it were from ...
... fact and circum- stance , in the running river and the rustling corn . Praise is looked , homage tendered , love flows , from mute nature , from the mountains and the lights of the firmament . " These hints , dropped as it were from ...
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