Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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Page 32
... fear and obedience , and even much sympathy with the tyranny , — is a familiar fact , explained to the child when he becomes a man , only by seeing that the oppressor of his youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and ...
... fear and obedience , and even much sympathy with the tyranny , — is a familiar fact , explained to the child when he becomes a man , only by seeing that the oppressor of his youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and ...
Page 68
... be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience. You take the way from man, not to man. All persons that ever existed are its forgotten ministers. Fear and hope are alike beneath it. There is somewhat 68 SELF-RELIANCE.
... be wholly strange and new. It shall exclude example and experience. You take the way from man, not to man. All persons that ever existed are its forgotten ministers. Fear and hope are alike beneath it. There is somewhat 68 SELF-RELIANCE.
Page 51
... fear . These are the voices which we hear in solitude , but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world . Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members . Society is a joint - stock ...
... fear . These are the voices which we hear in solitude , but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world . Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members . Society is a joint - stock ...
Page 69
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Fear and hope are alike beneath it . There is somewhat low even in hope . In the hour of vision there is nothing that can be called gratitude , nor properly joy . The soul raised over passion beholds identity and ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Fear and hope are alike beneath it . There is somewhat low even in hope . In the hour of vision there is nothing that can be called gratitude , nor properly joy . The soul raised over passion beholds identity and ...
Page 71
... trifles . Friend , client , child , sickness , fear , want , charity , all knock at once at thy closet door and say , come not into their confusion . The power men possess ― ' Come out unto us . ' But keep thy state ; SELF - RELIANCE . 71.
... trifles . Friend , client , child , sickness , fear , want , charity , all knock at once at thy closet door and say , come not into their confusion . The power men possess ― ' Come out unto us . ' But keep thy state ; SELF - RELIANCE . 71.
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| Title | Essays, First Series Volume 2 of Works, Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | John B. Alden, 1886 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 15 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 343 pages |
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