The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 1st seriesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1903 |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. I am owner of the sphere , Of the seven stars and the solar year , Of Cæsar's hand , and Plato's brain , Of Lord Christ's heart , and Shakspeare's strain . " HISTORY HERE is one mind common to all in- TH.
Ralph Waldo Emerson. I am owner of the sphere , Of the seven stars and the solar year , Of Cæsar's hand , and Plato's brain , Of Lord Christ's heart , and Shakspeare's strain . " HISTORY HERE is one mind common to all in- TH.
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... heart precisely as they meet mine . Then the vaunted distinction between Greek and English , between Classic and Romantic schools , seems superficial and pedantic . When a thought of Plato be- comes a thought to me , the soul of Pindar ...
... heart precisely as they meet mine . Then the vaunted distinction between Greek and English , between Classic and Romantic schools , seems superficial and pedantic . When a thought of Plato be- comes a thought to me , the soul of Pindar ...
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... heart and soul of the commonest hearer . Hence evidently the tripod , the priest , the priestess inspired by the divine afflatus . Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual peo- ple . They cannot unite him to history , or re concile him ...
... heart and soul of the commonest hearer . Hence evidently the tripod , the priest , the priestess inspired by the divine afflatus . Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual peo- ple . They cannot unite him to history , or re concile him ...
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... heart go as it were highways to the heart of every object in nature , to reduce it under the dominion of man . A man is a bundle of relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . His faculties refer to natures ...
... heart go as it were highways to the heart of every object in nature , to reduce it under the dominion of man . A man is a bundle of relations , a knot of roots , whose flower and fruitage is the world . His faculties refer to natures ...
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... heart is true for all men , that is genius . Speak your latent conviction , and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost , and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last ...
... heart is true for all men , that is genius . Speak your latent conviction , and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost , and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last ...
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