The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st seriesHoughton Mifflin, 1903 |
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Page 178
... persons from his attention as cheap and unworthy , she indemnifies him by carrying out her own being into somewhat impersonal , large , mundane , so that the maiden stands to him for a representative of all select things and virtues ...
... persons from his attention as cheap and unworthy , she indemnifies him by carrying out her own being into somewhat impersonal , large , mundane , so that the maiden stands to him for a representative of all select things and virtues ...
Page 214
... persons , or we read books , in the instinctive faith that these will call it out and reveal us to ourselves . Beggars all . The persons are such as we ; the Europe , an old faded garment of dead persons ; the books , their ghosts . Let ...
... persons , or we read books , in the instinctive faith that these will call it out and reveal us to ourselves . Beggars all . The persons are such as we ; the Europe , an old faded garment of dead persons ; the books , their ghosts . Let ...
Page 392
... persons whom he met , whether high or low . From his childhood he copied anec- dotes of persons , and he read them to his scholars . Plutarch was his delight . Dr. Holmes interested himself in making a list of the persons most often ...
... persons whom he met , whether high or low . From his childhood he copied anec- dotes of persons , and he read them to his scholars . Plutarch was his delight . Dr. Holmes interested himself in making a list of the persons most often ...
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