The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 1st seriesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1903 |
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... 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 a thousand forests is in one acorn , and Em 1903 v CONTENTS PAGE HISTORY.
... 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 a thousand forests is in one acorn , and Em 1903 v CONTENTS PAGE HISTORY.
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... gives worth to particular men and things . Human life , as containing this , is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws derive hence their ultimate reason ; all express more HISTORY 5.
... gives worth to particular men and things . Human life , as containing this , is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with penalties and laws . All laws derive hence their ultimate reason ; all express more HISTORY 5.
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... gives of himself and his com- patriots in the Retreat of the Ten Thousand . " After the army had crossed the river Teleboas in Armenia , there fell much snow , and the troops lay miserably on the ground covered with it . But Xenophon ...
... gives of himself and his com- patriots in the Retreat of the Ten Thousand . " After the army had crossed the river Teleboas in Armenia , there fell much snow , and the troops lay miserably on the ground covered with it . But Xenophon ...
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... gives the history of religion , with some closeness to the faith of later ages . Prometheus is the Jesus of the old mythology . He is the friend of man ; stands between the unjust " justice " of the Eternal Father and the race of ...
... gives the history of religion , with some closeness to the faith of later ages . Prometheus is the Jesus of the old mythology . He is the friend of man ; stands between the unjust " justice " of the Eternal Father and the race of ...
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... gives them body to his own imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet is it much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of the same author , for the rea- son that it operates a ...
... gives them body to his own imagination . And although that poem be as vague and fantastic as a dream , yet is it much more attractive than the more regular dramatic pieces of the same author , for the rea- son that it operates a ...
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