Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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... Stand before each of its tablets and say , ' Under this mask did my Proteus nature hide itself . ' This remedies the defect of our too great near- ness to ourselves . This throws our actions into perspective , and as crabs , goats ...
... Stand before each of its tablets and say , ' Under this mask did my Proteus nature hide itself . ' This remedies the defect of our too great near- ness to ourselves . This throws our actions into perspective , and as crabs , goats ...
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... standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way . " What ...
... standing still in Gibeon , is poetry thenceforward to all nations . Who cares what the fact was , when we have made a constellation of it to hang in heaven an immortal sign ? London and Paris and New York must go the same way . " What ...
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... stand be- fore every public and private work ; before an oration of Burke , before a victory of Napo- leon , before a martyrdom of Sir Thomas More , of Sidney , of Marmaduke Robinson ; ' before a French Reign of Terror , and a Salem ...
... stand be- fore every public and private work ; before an oration of Burke , before a victory of Napo- leon , before a martyrdom of Sir Thomas More , of Sidney , of Marmaduke Robinson ; ' before a French Reign of Terror , and a Salem ...
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... stands between the unjust " justice " of the Eternal Father and the race of mortals , and readily suf- fers all things on their account . ' But where it departs from the Calvinistic Christianity and exhibits him as the defier of Jove ...
... stands between the unjust " justice " of the Eternal Father and the race of mortals , and readily suf- fers all things on their account . ' But where it departs from the Calvinistic Christianity and exhibits him as the defier of Jove ...
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... into nature . The idiot , the Indian , the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read , than the dissector or the antiquary . ' . SELF - RELIANCE " Ne te quæsiveris extra . HISTORY 41.
... into nature . The idiot , the Indian , the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read , than the dissector or the antiquary . ' . SELF - RELIANCE " Ne te quæsiveris extra . HISTORY 41.
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