The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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Page 57
... follies also . The plays of children are nonsense , but very educative nonsense . So it is with the largest and solemnest things , with commerce , government , church , marriage , and so with the history of every man's EXPERIENCE 57.
... follies also . The plays of children are nonsense , but very educative nonsense . So it is with the largest and solemnest things , with commerce , government , church , marriage , and so with the history of every man's EXPERIENCE 57.
Page 64
... church , the ascetics , Gentoos and corn - eaters , she does not distinguish by any favor . She comes eating and drinking and sinning . Her darlings , the great , the strong , the beautiful , are not children of our law ; do not come ...
... church , the ascetics , Gentoos and corn - eaters , she does not distinguish by any favor . She comes eating and drinking and sinning . Her darlings , the great , the strong , the beautiful , are not children of our law ; do not come ...
Page 111
... churches , cheap . For when men shall meet as they ought , each a benefactor , a shower of stars , clothed with thoughts , with deeds , with accom- plishments , it should be the festival of nature which all things announce . Of such ...
... churches , cheap . For when men shall meet as they ought , each a benefactor , a shower of stars , clothed with thoughts , with deeds , with accom- plishments , it should be the festival of nature which all things announce . Of such ...
Page 146
... church : Scipio , and the Cid , ' and Sir Philip Sidney , and Washington , and every pure and valiant heart who worshipped Beauty by word and by deed . The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy are not found in the actual ...
... church : Scipio , and the Cid , ' and Sir Philip Sidney , and Washington , and every pure and valiant heart who worshipped Beauty by word and by deed . The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy are not found in the actual ...
Page 170
... church , or state , is interpolated on the divine sky and the immortal year . How easily we might walk onward into the opening landscape , absorbed by new pictures and by thoughts fast succeeding each other , until by degrees the re ...
... church , or state , is interpolated on the divine sky and the immortal year . How easily we might walk onward into the opening landscape , absorbed by new pictures and by thoughts fast succeeding each other , until by degrees the re ...
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