Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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Page 31
... any antiquity in them . They are mine as much as theirs . I have seen the first monks and anchorets , with- some individual has appeared to me with such neg- ligence out crossing seas or centuries . More than once HISTORY . 31.
... any antiquity in them . They are mine as much as theirs . I have seen the first monks and anchorets , with- some individual has appeared to me with such neg- ligence out crossing seas or centuries . More than once HISTORY . 31.
Page 51
... seen to be not private but necessary , would sink like darts into the ear of men and put them in fear . - These are the voices which we hear in solitude , but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world . Society everywhere ...
... seen to be not private but necessary , would sink like darts into the ear of men and put them in fear . - These are the voices which we hear in solitude , but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world . Society everywhere ...
Page 65
... that thing . But perception is not whim- sical , but fatal . If I see a trait , my children will see it after me , and in course of time all mankind , although it may chance that no one has seen it VOL . 11 . 5 SELF - RELIANCE . 65.
... that thing . But perception is not whim- sical , but fatal . If I see a trait , my children will see it after me , and in course of time all mankind , although it may chance that no one has seen it VOL . 11 . 5 SELF - RELIANCE . 65.
Page 66
Ralph Waldo Emerson. although it may chance that no one has seen it before me . For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun . The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek to interpose ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. although it may chance that no one has seen it before me . For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun . The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is profane to seek to interpose ...
Page 67
... I know not what David , or Jeremiah , or Paul . We shall not al- ways set so great a price on a few texts , on a few although it may chance that no one has seen it lives . We are like children who repeat by rote SELF - RELIANCE . 67.
... I know not what David , or Jeremiah , or Paul . We shall not al- ways set so great a price on a few texts , on a few although it may chance that no one has seen it lives . We are like children who repeat by rote SELF - RELIANCE . 67.
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