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Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for
this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the
record . Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by
...
Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done , for
this is the only and sovereign agent . Of the works of this mind history is the
record . Its genius is illustrated by the entire series of days . Man is explicable by
...
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... the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal
forces , so the hours should be instructed by the ages , and the ages explained
by the hours . Of the universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation
.
... the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal
forces , so the hours should be instructed by the ages , and the ages explained
by the hours . Of the universal mind each individual man is one more incarnation
.
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It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human
life as containing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with
penalties and laws . All laws derive hence their ultimate reason ; all express more
...
It is the universal nature which gives worth to particular men and things . Human
life as containing this is mysterious and inviolable , and we hedge it round with
penalties and laws . All laws derive hence their ultimate reason ; all express more
...
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Universal history , the poets , the romancers , do not in their stateliest pictures —
in the sacerdotal , the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will or of genius —
anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for
better ...
Universal history , the poets , the romancers , do not in their stateliest pictures —
in the sacerdotal , the imperial palaces , in the triumphs of will or of genius —
anywhere lose our ear , anywhere make us feel that we intrude , that this is for
better ...
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He finds that the poet was no odd fellow who described strange and impossible
situations , but that universal man wrote by his pen a confession true for one and
true for all . His own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to ...
He finds that the poet was no odd fellow who described strange and impossible
situations , but that universal man wrote by his pen a confession true for one and
true for all . His own secret biography he finds in lines wonderfully intelligible to ...
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Informações bibliográficas
| Título | Essays |
| Autor | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Editora | J. Munroe and Company, 1848 |
| Original de | Harvard University |
| Digitalizado | 16 set. 2005 |
| Num. págs. | 333 páginas |
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