The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st seriesHoughton Mifflin, 1903 |
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Page 103
... moral sweet , the morai deep , the moral fair ; that is , again , to contrive to cut clean off this upper surface so thin as COMPENSATION 103.
... moral sweet , the morai deep , the moral fair ; that is , again , to contrive to cut clean off this upper surface so thin as COMPENSATION 103.
Page 275
... moral and of mental gain . The simple rise as by specific levity not into a particular virtue , but into the region of all the virtues . They are in the spirit which contains them all . The soul requires purity , but purity is not it ...
... moral and of mental gain . The simple rise as by specific levity not into a particular virtue , but into the region of all the virtues . They are in the spirit which contains them all . The soul requires purity , but purity is not it ...
Page 301
... moral we have already deduced in considering the circular or compensatory char- acter of every human action . Another analogy we shall now trace , that every action admits of being outdone . Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth ...
... moral we have already deduced in considering the circular or compensatory char- acter of every human action . Another analogy we shall now trace , that every action admits of being outdone . Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth ...
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