The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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Page 29
... fashion and covetousness , and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee , thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pine woods . open If the imagination intoxicates the poet , it is THE POET 29.
... fashion and covetousness , and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee , thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pine woods . open If the imagination intoxicates the poet , it is THE POET 29.
Page 107
... fashion the citi- zen , she goes her own gait and puts the wisest in the wrong . She makes very light of gospels and prophets , as one who has a great many more to produce and no excess of time to spare on any one . There is a class of ...
... fashion the citi- zen , she goes her own gait and puts the wisest in the wrong . She makes very light of gospels and prophets , as one who has a great many more to produce and no excess of time to spare on any one . There is a class of ...
Page 122
... fashion , a word of narrow and often sinister meaning , and the heroic character which the gentleman imports . The usual words , however , must be respected ; they will be found to contain the root of the matter . The point of ...
... fashion , a word of narrow and often sinister meaning , and the heroic character which the gentleman imports . The usual words , however , must be respected ; they will be found to contain the root of the matter . The point of ...
Page 125
... fashion- able circles and not with truckmen , he will never be a leader in fashion ; and if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman , so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own ...
... fashion- able circles and not with truckmen , he will never be a leader in fashion ; and if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman , so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own ...
Page 127
... fashion , for that affin- ity they find in it . Napoleon , child of the re- volution , destroyer of the old noblesse , never ceased to court the Faubourg St. Germain ; doubtless with the feeling that fashion is a hom- age to men of his ...
... fashion , for that affin- ity they find in it . Napoleon , child of the re- volution , destroyer of the old noblesse , never ceased to court the Faubourg St. Germain ; doubtless with the feeling that fashion is a hom- age to men of his ...
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