Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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Page 7
... wise man by Stoic or Ori- ental or modern essayist , describes to each reader his own idea , describes his unattained but attain- able self . All literature writes the character of the wise man . Books , monuments , pictures ...
... wise man by Stoic or Ori- ental or modern essayist , describes to each reader his own idea , describes his unattained but attain- able self . All literature writes the character of the wise man . Books , monuments , pictures ...
Page 34
... wise things which they do not themselves understand . " All the fic- tions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that period toiled to achieve . Magic and all ...
... wise things which they do not themselves understand . " All the fic- tions of the Middle Age explain themselves as a masked or frolic expression of that which in grave earnest the mind of that period toiled to achieve . Magic and all ...
Page 38
... wise man . You shall not tell me by languages . and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read . You shall make me feel what periods you have lived . A man shall be the Temple of Fame . He shall walk , as the poets have de- scribed ...
... wise man . You shall not tell me by languages . and titles a catalogue of the volumes you have read . You shall make me feel what periods you have lived . A man shall be the Temple of Fame . He shall walk , as the poets have de- scribed ...
Page 58
... wise spirit that ever took flesh . To be great is to be misunderstood . ' I suppose no man can violate his nature . All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being , as the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are ...
... wise spirit that ever took flesh . To be great is to be misunderstood . ' I suppose no man can violate his nature . All the sallies of his will are rounded in by the law of his being , as the inequalities of Andes and Himmaleh are ...
Page 81
... wise man stays at home , and when his necessities , his duties , on any occasion call him from his house , or into foreign lands , he is at home still and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance that he goes , the ...
... wise man stays at home , and when his necessities , his duties , on any occasion call him from his house , or into foreign lands , he is at home still and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance that he goes , the ...
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