American Public Addresses, 1740-1952McGraw-Hill, 1956 - 301 pages |
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Page 125
... mind . Its laws are the laws of his own mind . Nature then becomes to him the measure of his attainments . So much of nature as he is ignorant of , so much of his own mind does he not yet possess . And , in fine , the ancient precept ...
... mind . Its laws are the laws of his own mind . Nature then becomes to him the measure of his attainments . So much of nature as he is ignorant of , so much of his own mind does he not yet possess . And , in fine , the ancient precept ...
Page 127
... mind's own sense of good and fair . On the other part , instead of being its own seer , let it receive from an- other mind its truth , though it were in torrents of light , without periods of solitude , inquest , and self - recovery ...
... mind's own sense of good and fair . On the other part , instead of being its own seer , let it receive from an- other mind its truth , though it were in torrents of light , without periods of solitude , inquest , and self - recovery ...
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... mind the wisdom of interfering as little as possible in our own preparation and in the equipment of our own military ... mind now that I had in mind when I addressed the Senate on the twenty - second of January last ; the same that I had ...
... mind the wisdom of interfering as little as possible in our own preparation and in the equipment of our own military ... mind now that I had in mind when I addressed the Senate on the twenty - second of January last ; the same that I had ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
RALPH WALDO EMERSON | 3 |
Sinners in the Hands of an Angry | 15 |
Copyright | |
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