The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 5-6Wm. H. Wise, 1903 |
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... culture . Schools do no good . Tuition is not education . He thinks more of the education of circumstances than of tuition . ' T is not question whether there are offences of which the law takes cognizance , but whether there are ...
... culture . Schools do no good . Tuition is not education . He thinks more of the education of circumstances than of tuition . ' T is not question whether there are offences of which the law takes cognizance , but whether there are ...
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... culture of the day , the thoughts and aims of men , are English thoughts and aims . ' A nation considerable for a thousand years since Egbert , it has , in the last centuries , obtained the ascendent , and stamped the knowledge ...
... culture of the day , the thoughts and aims of men , are English thoughts and aims . ' A nation considerable for a thousand years since Egbert , it has , in the last centuries , obtained the ascendent , and stamped the knowledge ...
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... culture and a sublime creed . " They have a hidden and precarious genius . They made the best popular literature of the Middle Ages in the songs of Merlin and the tender and delicious mythology of Arthur . 2. The English come mainly ...
... culture and a sublime creed . " They have a hidden and precarious genius . They made the best popular literature of the Middle Ages in the songs of Merlin and the tender and delicious mythology of Arthur . 2. The English come mainly ...
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... culture of the vine , but the wines of all countries are in its docks . The French Comte de Lauraguais said , " No fruit ripens in England but a baked apple ; but oranges and pine - apples are as cheap in Lon- don as in the ...
... culture of the vine , but the wines of all countries are in its docks . The French Comte de Lauraguais said , " No fruit ripens in England but a baked apple ; but oranges and pine - apples are as cheap in Lon- don as in the ...
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... culture and grass . The climate too , which was already believed to have become milder and drier by the enormous consump- tion of coal , is so far reached by this new action , that fogs and storms are said to disappear . In due course ...
... culture and grass . The climate too , which was already believed to have become milder and drier by the enormous consump- tion of coal , is so far reached by this new action , that fogs and storms are said to disappear . In due course ...
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