The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 1st seriesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1903 |
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... human spirit goes forth from the be- ginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion which belongs to it , in appro- priate events . But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the facts of history preƫxist in the ...
... human spirit goes forth from the be- ginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion which belongs to it , in appro- priate events . But the thought is always prior to the fact ; all the facts of history preƫxist in the ...
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... human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual expe- rience . There is a relation between the hours of our life ...
... human mind wrote history , and this must read it . The Sphinx must solve her own riddle . If the whole of history is in one man , it is all to be explained from individual expe- rience . There is a relation between the hours of our life ...
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... 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.
... 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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... human nature ; that is all . We must in our- selves see the necessary reason of every fact , - see how it could and must be . So stand be- fore every public and private work ; before an oration of Burke , before a victory of Napo- leon ...
... human nature ; that is all . We must in our- selves see the necessary reason of every fact , - see how it could and must be . So stand be- fore every public and private work ; before an oration of Burke , before a victory of Napo- leon ...
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... human feet . The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at mid- night , has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world . I remember one summer day in the fields my companion . pointed out ...
... human feet . The man who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at mid- night , has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world . I remember one summer day in the fields my companion . pointed out ...
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