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" avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes, three or four centuries ago. Not in time is the race progressive. Phocion, Socrates, Anaxagoras, Diogenes, are great men, but they leave no class. He who is really of their class will not be called... "
The Essay on Self-reliance - Page 55
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 59 pages
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 pages
...religion and p\\\\o&o^\\N teenth century avail to e<\v\cs\Xe, Plutarch's heroes, three or four and twenty centuries ago. Not in time is the race progressive....by their name, but be wholly his own man, and, in his turn, the founder of a sect. The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do...
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american prose

george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 pages
...the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes, three or four and twenty centuries ago. Not in time is the race progressive....called by their name, but be wholly his own man, and in his turn the founder of a sect. The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do...
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American Prose: Selections, with Critical Introductions by Various Writers

George Rice Carpenter - 1898 - 498 pages
...the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes, three or four and twenty centuries ago. Not in time is the race progressive....called by their name, but be wholly his own man, and in his turn the founder of a sect. The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do...
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Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes, three or four and twenty centuries ago. Not in time is the race progressive....their class will not be called by their name, but will be his own man, and, in his turn, the founder of a sect. The arts and inventions of each period...
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The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 4

David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 462 pages
...the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes, three or four and twenty centuries ago. Not in time is the race progressive....by their name, but be wholly his own man, and, in his turn, the founder of a sect. The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do...
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Introductory Lessons in English Literature: For High Schools and Academies

Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes, three or four and twenty centuries ago. Not in time is the race progressive....Diogenes, are great men, but they leave no class. He540 who is really of their class will not be called by their name, but will be his own man, and in...
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The Review of Education: An Educational Review of Reviews, Volume 2

1896 - 858 pages
...and of the last ages; nor can all the science, art religion and philosophy of the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes,...their class will not be called by their name, but will be his own man, and in his own turn the founder of a sect. The arts and inventions of a period...
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Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization ..., Volume 4

David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 448 pages
...the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes, three or four and twenty centuries ago. Not in time is the race progressive....by their name, but be wholly his own man, and. in his turn, the founder of a sect. The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do...
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So this Then is the Essay on Self-reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 pages
...four and twenty centuries ago. Not in time is the race progressive. Phocion, Socrates, Anaxago- . ras, Diogenes, are great men, but they leave no class....by their name, but be wholly his own man, and, in his turn the founder of a sect. The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 478 pages
...the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes, three or four and twenty centuries ago. Not in time is the race progressive....their class will not be called by their name, but will be his own man, and in his turn the founder of a sect. The arts and inventions of each period...
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