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Miscellanies, Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures - Page 86
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 383 pages
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American Literature Through Illustrative Readings

Sarah Emma Simons - 1915 - 492 pages
...of here and there a favourite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his; — cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. There are creative...
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Essays for College Men: 2d Series

Norman Foerster - 1915 - 406 pages
...of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his ; — cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. There are creative...
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Essays for College English

James Cloyd Bowman, Louis Ignatius Bredvold, LeRoy Bethuel Greenfield, Bruce Weirick - 1915 - 488 pages
...of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his; cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. There are creative...
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Representative Phi Beta Kappa Orations

Clark Sutherland Northup, William Coolidge Lane, John Christopher Schwab - 1915 - 526 pages
...of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his Jiindhead: man hopes: genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux...
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American Prose (1607-1865)

Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1916 - 760 pages
...of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his; — cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. There are creative...
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American Prose: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers ...

George Rice Carpenter - 1916 - 798 pages
...of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his; — cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. There are creative...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 pages
...of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every nan. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his; — cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. There are creative...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every nan. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...They pin me down. They look backward and not forward. lnnl-g fnrward: the eyes of man are set, in Jhis forehead: not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates....
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The Oral Study of Literature

Algernon de Vivier Tassin - 1923 - 456 pages
...of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution...forehead, not in his hindhead. Man hopes. Genius creates. To create, — to create, — is the proof of a divine presence. Whatever talents may be, if the man...
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The Praise of Folly: And Other Papers

Bliss Perry - 1923 - 248 pages
...in the world, of value, is the active soul. The book, the college, the institution of any kind, 103 stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good,...They pin me down. They look backward and not forward. Books are for the scholar's idle times. They serve us best when they aim, not to drill, but to create...
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