The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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Page 18
... rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought . Why covet a knowledge of new facts ? Day and night , house and garden , a few books , a few actions , serve us . as well as would all trades and all spectacles . We are far from ...
... rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought . Why covet a knowledge of new facts ? Day and night , house and garden , a few books , a few actions , serve us . as well as would all trades and all spectacles . We are far from ...
Page 40
... of air for our respiration . or for the combustion of our fireplace ; not a measure of gallons , but the entire atmosphere if wanted . And therefore the rich poets , as Homer , Chaucer , Shakspeare , and Raphael , have 40 THE POET.
... of air for our respiration . or for the combustion of our fireplace ; not a measure of gallons , but the entire atmosphere if wanted . And therefore the rich poets , as Homer , Chaucer , Shakspeare , and Raphael , have 40 THE POET.
Page 46
... . Our life looks trivial , and we shun to record it . Men V seem to have learned of the horizon the art of perpetual retreating and reference . ' Yonder uplands are rich pasturage , and my neighbor has fertile 46 EXPERIENCE.
... . Our life looks trivial , and we shun to record it . Men V seem to have learned of the horizon the art of perpetual retreating and reference . ' Yonder uplands are rich pasturage , and my neighbor has fertile 46 EXPERIENCE.
Page 47
Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. uplands are rich pasturage , and my neighbor has fertile meadow , but my field , ' says the querulous farmer , only holds the world together . ' I quote another man's saying ; unluckily that ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. uplands are rich pasturage , and my neighbor has fertile meadow , but my field , ' says the querulous farmer , only holds the world together . ' I quote another man's saying ; unluckily that ...
Page 105
... rich . Thence comes a new intellectual exaltation , to be again rebuked by some new exhibition of character . Strange alternation of attraction and repulsion ! Character repudiates intellect , yet excites it ; and character passes into ...
... rich . Thence comes a new intellectual exaltation , to be again rebuked by some new exhibition of character . Strange alternation of attraction and repulsion ! Character repudiates intellect , yet excites it ; and character passes into ...
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