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" We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience and verifying them here. All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography. "
American Literature and the Destruction of Knowledge: Innovative Writing in ... - Page 8
by Ronald E. Martin - 1991 - 391 pages
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...of each and of all eras in my own mind. We are always coming up with the facts that have moved us in history in our private experience, and verifying them...there is properly no History ; only Biography. Every soul must know the whole lesson for itself — must go over the whole ground. What it does not see,...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...Spam, and the Islands, — the genius and creative principle of each and of ill eras in my own mind. We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of...subjective ; in other words, there is properly no history ; onlj biography. Every mind must know the whole lesson for itself, — must go over the whole ground....
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...of each and of all eras in my own mind. We are always coming up with the facts that have moved us in history in our private experience, and verifying them...there is properly no History; only Biography. Every soul must know the whole lesson for itself—must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...each, and of all eras, in my own mind. We are always coming up with the facts that have moved us in history in our private experience, and verifying them...becomes subjective; in other words, there is properly no History—only Biography. Every soul must know the whole lesson for itself—must go over the whole...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...of each and of all eras in my own mind. We are always coming up with the facts that have moved us in history in our private experience, and verifying them...there is properly no History; only Biography. Every soul must know the whole lesson for itself — must go over the whole ground. What it does not see,...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...of each and of all eras in my own mind. We are always coming up with the facts that have moved us in history in our private experience, and verifying them...there is properly no History; only Biography. Every soul must know the whole lesson for itself — must go over the whole ground. What it does not see,...
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Essays [1st ser., ed.] with preface by T. Carlyle

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...and of all eras, in my mind. We are always coming up with the emphatic facts that have moved us in history in our private experience, and verifying them...over the whole ground. What it does not see, what is does not live, it will not know. What the former age has epitomised into a formula or rule for manipular...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In Two Volumes, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...Spain, and the Islands, — the genius and creative principle of each and of all eras in my own mind. We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of...only biography. Every mind must know the whole lesson foi itself, — must go over the whole ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it will...
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Transcendentalism in New England: A History

Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1876 - 418 pages
...a private despatch, which relieves him of the terror which presses on the rest of the community." " We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of...ground. What it does not see, what it does not live, it does not know." In the appreciation of scientific facts the same method avails. Tyndall commends Emerson...
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Transcendentalism in New England: A History

Octavius Brooks Frothingham - 1876 - 414 pages
...a private despatch, which relieves him of the terror which presses on the rest of the community}" " We are always coming up with the emphatic facts of...there is properly no history ; only biography. Every hole lesson Jor itself,— i mind must know the wRole lesson for itself,"— must go over the whole...
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