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" A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we... "
Select American Classics: Being Selections from Irving's Sketch Book and ... - Page 49
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The Essential Gore Vidal

Gore Vidal - 1999 - 1032 pages
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A Politics of the Ordinary

Thomas L. Dumm - 1999 - 232 pages
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Verging on Extra-vagance: Anthropology, History, Religion, Literature, Arts ...

James A. Boon - 1999 - 388 pages
...human, beginning from a famous early sentence of "Self-Reliance" I have already had occasion to cite: "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." The idea of a majesty alienated from us is a transcription of the idea of the sublime as Kant characterizes...
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The Resurrection of Philip Clairmont

Martin Edmond - 1999 - 286 pages
...and uncompromising, we have to look if we want to see. <u 3 H In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Ralph Waldo Emerson 8 Not long after I began researching this subject, I had a dream in which the body...
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The American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation

Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 pages
...that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice...spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly...
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Pragmatism and Classical American Philosophy: Essential Readings and ...

John J. Stuhr - 2000 - 724 pages
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American Ethics: A Source Book from Edwards to Dewey

Guy W. Stroh, Howard G. Callaway - 2000 - 524 pages
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The Aesthetics of Enchantment in the Fine Arts, Volume 65

Marlies Kronegger, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - 2000 - 342 pages
...and God: "It takes me by surprise and yet is not unknown" (3); or, as he writes in "SelfReliance": "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...art have no more affecting lesson for us than this" (138). Because good art for Emerson is about revealing a natural fact or truth, when we experience...
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Speaking of Science

Jon Fripp, Michael Fripp, Deborah Fripp - 2000 - 262 pages
...just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. — Thomas Soweit, 1999 Quoted in Readers Digest In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. — Wernher...
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Education in an Age of Nihilism

Nigel Blake - 2000 - 239 pages
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