The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 1st seriesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1903 |
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... whole estate . What Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done ...
... whole estate . What Plato has thought , he may think ; what a saint has felt , he may feel ; what at any time has befallen any man , he can understand . Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done ...
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... 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 and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature ...
... 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 and the centuries of time . As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature ...
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... whole lesson for itself , must go over the whole ground . What it does not see , what it does not live , it will not know . What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience , it will lose all the good ...
... whole lesson for itself , must go over the whole ground . What it does not see , what it does not live , it will not know . What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience , it will lose all the good ...
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... whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us . Surely it was by man ...
... whole line of temples and sphinxes and catacombs , passes through them all with satisfaction , and they live again to the mind , or are now . A Gothic cathedral affirms that it was done by us and not done by us . Surely it was by man ...
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... whole mountain of stone of a cathedral . When we have gone through this process , and added thereto the Catholic Church , its cross , its music , its processions , its Saints ' days and image - wor- ship , we have as it were been the ...
... whole mountain of stone of a cathedral . When we have gone through this process , and added thereto the Catholic Church , its cross , its music , its processions , its Saints ' days and image - wor- ship , we have as it were been the ...
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