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Far off , men swell , bully and threaten ; bring them hand to hand , and they are a feeble folk . It is a proverb that ' courtesy costs nothing ; ' but calculation might come to value love for its profit . Love is fabled to be blind ...
Far off , men swell , bully and threaten ; bring them hand to hand , and they are a feeble folk . It is a proverb that ' courtesy costs nothing ; ' but calculation might come to value love for its profit . Love is fabled to be blind ...
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more fore me ; naught superficial , second - hand . ... of real meaning than any other book which ever fell into his hands , and thought such essays could be produced through a lifetime as rapidly as a human pen could be made to move .
more fore me ; naught superficial , second - hand . ... of real meaning than any other book which ever fell into his hands , and thought such essays could be produced through a lifetime as rapidly as a human pen could be made to move .
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Here , as in the two essays on Art , in this volume and in Society and Solitude , the same thought appears , embodied also in “ The Problem ” in the lines beginning , - The hand that rounded Peter's dome , etc. Page 19 , note 1 .
Here , as in the two essays on Art , in this volume and in Society and Solitude , the same thought appears , embodied also in “ The Problem ” in the lines beginning , - The hand that rounded Peter's dome , etc. Page 19 , note 1 .
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| Title | The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series Volume 2 of The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Editor | Edward Waldo Emerson |
| Contributor | Edward Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | Houghton, Mifflin, 1903 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Aug 2010 |
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