Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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... every man passes personally through a Grecian pe- riod . The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature , the perfection of the senses , of the spirit- ual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . HISTORY . 21.
... every man passes personally through a Grecian pe- riod . The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature , the perfection of the senses , of the spirit- ual nature unfolded in strict unity with the body . HISTORY . 21.
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... a sentiment of his infancy , a prayer of his youth , he then pierces to the truth through all the confusion of tradition and the caricature of institu tions . Rare , extravagant spirits come by us at intervals , 24 ESSAY I.
... a sentiment of his infancy , a prayer of his youth , he then pierces to the truth through all the confusion of tradition and the caricature of institu tions . Rare , extravagant spirits come by us at intervals , 24 ESSAY I.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. Rare , extravagant spirits come by us at intervals , who disclose to us new facts in nature . I ... spirits and courage , paralyzing the understanding , and Th - that without producing indignation , but only fear and ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Rare , extravagant spirits come by us at intervals , who disclose to us new facts in nature . I ... spirits and courage , paralyzing the understanding , and Th - that without producing indignation , but only fear and ...
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... spirit . Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or questions of time , serve them . Facts encumber them , tyrannize over them , and make the men of rou- tine the men of sense , in whom a literal obedience to facts ...
... spirit . Those men who cannot answer by a superior wisdom these facts or questions of time , serve them . Facts encumber them , tyrannize over them , and make the men of rou- tine the men of sense , in whom a literal obedience to facts ...
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... spirit " to bend the shows of things to the desires of the mind . " In Perceforest and Amadis de Gaul , a garland and a rose bloom on the head of her who is faithful , and fade on the brow of the inconstant . In the story of the Boy and ...
... spirit " to bend the shows of things to the desires of the mind . " In Perceforest and Amadis de Gaul , a garland and a rose bloom on the head of her who is faithful , and fade on the brow of the inconstant . In the story of the Boy and ...
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