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" A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his genius that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of man. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as,... "
Select Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 78
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 245 pages
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...Name some of those "stout and earnest persons" whose biographies are United States history. a country, and an age ; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his thought; — and posterity seem to follow his steps as a procession. A man Caesar is born, and for...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essays - 1841 - 324 pages
...time fully to accomplish his thought ; — and posterity seem to follow his steps as a procession. A man Caesar is born, and for ages after, we have...that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of man. fin institution is the lengthened shadow of one man ; as, the Reformation, of Luther ; Quakerism,...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...put all means into the shade. This all great men are and do. Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age ; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his thought; — and posterity seem to follow his steps as a procession. A man Ceesar is born, and for...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...be so much, that he must make all circumstances indifferent. Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age ; requires infinite spaces and numbers...seem to follow his steps as a train of clients. A man Cfesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of minds so...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...indifferent—put all means into the shade. This all great men are and do. Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his thought: and posterity seem to follow his steps as a procession. A man Csesar is born, and for ages...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...indifferent,—put all means into the shade. This all great men are and do. Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his thought; —and posterity seem to follow his steps as a procession. A man Caesar is born, and for ages...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...put all means into the shade. This all great men are and do. Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his thought; — and posterity seems to follow his steps as a procession. A man Cffisar is born, and for...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...put all means into the shade. This all great men are and do. Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age ; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his thought; — and posterity seems to follow his steps as a procession. A man Casar is born, and for...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...be so much, that he must make all circumstances indifferent. Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age ; requires infinite spaces and numbers...that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of man. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man ; as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony ;...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...be so much, that he must make all circumstances indifferent. Every true man is a cause, a country, and an age ; requires infinite spaces and numbers...and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. Christ is bom, and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his genius, that he is confounded with virtue and...
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