The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d seriesHoughton, Mifflin, 1903 |
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... thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York , with 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 ...
... thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York , with 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 ...
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... thou abdicate a manifold and duplex life , and that thou be content that others speak for thee . Others shall be thy gentlemen and shall represent all courtesy and worldly life for thee ; others shall do the great and resounding actions ...
... thou abdicate a manifold and duplex life , and that thou be content that others speak for thee . Others shall be thy gentlemen and shall represent all courtesy and worldly life for thee ; others shall do the great and resounding actions ...
Page 42
... Thou shalt have the whole land for thy park and manor , the sea for thy bath and navigation , without tax and without envy ; the woods and the rivers thou shalt own , and thou shalt possess that wherein others are only tenants and boarders ...
... Thou shalt have the whole land for thy park and manor , the sea for thy bath and navigation , without tax and without envy ; the woods and the rivers thou shalt own , and thou shalt possess that wherein others are only tenants and boarders ...
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... dear Nature took ; Dearest Nature , strong and kind , Whispered , Darling , never mind ! · To - morrow they will wear another face , The founder thou ! these are thy race ! ' EXPERIENCE HERE do we find ourselves ? In a series EXPERIENCE.
... dear Nature took ; Dearest Nature , strong and kind , Whispered , Darling , never mind ! · To - morrow they will wear another face , The founder thou ! these are thy race ! ' EXPERIENCE HERE do we find ourselves ? In a series EXPERIENCE.
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... thou wert born to a whole and this story is a particular ? * The reason of the pain this discovery causes us ( and we make it late in respect to works of art and intellect ) is the plaint of tragedy which murmurs from it in regard to ...
... thou wert born to a whole and this story is a particular ? * The reason of the pain this discovery causes us ( and we make it late in respect to works of art and intellect ) is the plaint of tragedy which murmurs from it in regard to ...
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