The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2James R. Osgood and Company, 1876 |
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... This is he that should marshal us the way we were going . There is no end to his aid . Without Plato , we should almost lose our faith in the possibility of a reasonable book . We seem to want but one , but we want USES OF GREAT MEN . 15.
... This is he that should marshal us the way we were going . There is no end to his aid . Without Plato , we should almost lose our faith in the possibility of a reasonable book . We seem to want but one , but we want USES OF GREAT MEN . 15.
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... seem a bundle of insanities . We keep each other in countenance , and exasperate by emulation the frenzy of the time . The shield against the stingings of conscience , is the universal practice , or our contemporaries . Again ; it is ...
... seem a bundle of insanities . We keep each other in countenance , and exasperate by emulation the frenzy of the time . The shield against the stingings of conscience , is the universal practice , or our contemporaries . Again ; it is ...
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... seem at a dis- tance our own ; but we are hindered on all sides from approach . The more we are drawn , the more we ... seems as if the Deity dressed each soul which he sends into nature in certain virtues and powers not communicable to ...
... seem at a dis- tance our own ; but we are hindered on all sides from approach . The more we are drawn , the more we ... seems as if the Deity dressed each soul which he sends into nature in certain virtues and powers not communicable to ...
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... seems a mechanical advantage , and great benefit it is to each speaker , as he can now paint out his thought to himself . We pass very fast , in our personal moods , from dig- nity to dependence . And if any appear never to assume the ...
... seems a mechanical advantage , and great benefit it is to each speaker , as he can now paint out his thought to himself . We pass very fast , in our personal moods , from dig- nity to dependence . And if any appear never to assume the ...
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... seems , to a reader in New England , an American genius . His broad humanity transcends all sectional lines . This range of Plato instructs us what to think of the vexed question concerning his reputed works , — what are genuine , what ...
... seems , to a reader in New England , an American genius . His broad humanity transcends all sectional lines . This range of Plato instructs us what to think of the vexed question concerning his reputed works , — what are genuine , what ...
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