The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st seriesHoughton Mifflin, 1903 |
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Page 136
... give dollars ? It is very inconvenient to us country folk , and we do not think any good will come of it . We have not dollars , merchants have ; let them give them . Farmers will give corn ; poets will sing ; women will sew ; laborers ...
... give dollars ? It is very inconvenient to us country folk , and we do not think any good will come of it . We have not dollars , merchants have ; let them give them . Farmers will give corn ; poets will sing ; women will sew ; laborers ...
Page 343
... gives us leave to be great and universal . Every man's progress is through a succession of teachers , each of whom seems at the ... give . Exhaust them , wrestle with them , let them not go until their blessing be won , and INTELLECT 343.
... gives us leave to be great and universal . Every man's progress is through a succession of teachers , each of whom seems at the ... give . Exhaust them , wrestle with them , let them not go until their blessing be won , and INTELLECT 343.
Page 351
... give the suggestion of a fairer creation than we know . The details , the prose of nature he should omit and give us only the spirit and splendor . He should know that the landscape has beauty for his eye because it expresses a thought ...
... give the suggestion of a fairer creation than we know . The details , the prose of nature he should omit and give us only the spirit and splendor . He should know that the landscape has beauty for his eye because it expresses a thought ...
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