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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn , and Egypt , Greece , Rome , Gaul , Britain , America , lie folded already in the first man . Epoch after epoch , camp , kingdom , empire , republic , democracy , are merely the ...
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn , and Egypt , Greece , Rome , Gaul , Britain , America , lie folded already in the first man . Epoch after epoch , camp , kingdom , empire , republic , democracy , are merely the ...
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn , and Egypt , Greece , Rome , Gaul , Britain , America , lie folded already in the first man . Epoch after epoch , camp , kingdom , empire , republic , democracy , are merely the ...
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn , and Egypt , Greece , Rome , Gaul , Britain , America , lie folded already in the first man . Epoch after epoch , camp , kingdom , empire , republic , democracy , are merely the ...
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Babylon , Troy , Tyre , Palestine , and even early Rome are passing already into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact hang in heaven an ...
Babylon , Troy , Tyre , Palestine , and even early Rome are passing already into fiction . The Garden of Eden , the sun standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact hang in heaven an ...
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In these caverns , already prepared by nature , the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses , so that when art came to the assistance of nature it could not move on a small scale without degrading itself .
In these caverns , already prepared by nature , the eye was accustomed to dwell on huge shapes and masses , so that when art came to the assistance of nature it could not move on a small scale without degrading itself .
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One may say a gravitating solar system is already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind . Not less does the brain of Davy or of Gay - Lussac , from childhood exploring the affinities and repulsions of particles , anticipate the laws ...
One may say a gravitating solar system is already prophesied in the nature of Newton's mind . Not less does the brain of Davy or of Gay - Lussac , from childhood exploring the affinities and repulsions of particles , anticipate the laws ...
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| Title | Essays, First Series Volume 2 of Works, Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | John B. Alden, 1886 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 15 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 343 pages |
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