Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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Page 42
... Hear the rats in the wall , see the lizard on the fence , the fungus under foot , the lichen on the log . What do I know sympathetically , morally , of either of these worlds of life ? As old as the Caucasian man , perhaps older , these ...
... Hear the rats in the wall , see the lizard on the fence , the fungus under foot , the lichen on the log . What do I know sympathetically , morally , of either of these worlds of life ? As old as the Caucasian man , perhaps older , these ...
Page 68
... hear any name ; — the way, the thought, the good, shall 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 ...
... hear any name ; — the way, the thought, the good, shall 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 ...
Page 51
... 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 company , in which the members agree ...
... 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 company , in which the members agree ...
Page 55
... blindman's - buff is this game of conformity . If I know your sect I anticipate your argument . I hear ― pediency of one of the institutions of his church . a preacher announce for his text and topic the exwhich SELF - RELIANCE . 55.
... blindman's - buff is this game of conformity . If I know your sect I anticipate your argument . I hear ― pediency of one of the institutions of his church . a preacher announce for his text and topic the exwhich SELF - RELIANCE . 55.
Page 61
... hear a whistle from the Spartan fife . Let us never bow and apologize A great man is coming to eat at my house . I do not wish to please him ; I wish that he should wish to please me . I will stand here for humanity , and though I would ...
... hear a whistle from the Spartan fife . Let us never bow and apologize A great man is coming to eat at my house . I do not wish to please him ; I wish that he should wish to please me . I will stand here for humanity , and though I would ...
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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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