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" Go love thy infant; love thy woodchopper; be good-natured and modest; have that grace; and never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home. "
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by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 120 pages
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The Monthly magazine

Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy lore afar is spite at home.' Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is...me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation. Expect...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home." Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is...me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation. Expect...
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The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register

1841 - 640 pages
...this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home.' Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is...me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation. Expect...
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The Dublin Review, Volume 11

Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1841 - 618 pages
...frightful doctrines ; in the same page, after bitterly sneering at the abolitionists, he tells us " that the doctrine of hatred must be preached, as the counteraction...the doctrine of love when that pules and whines," and again, " do not tell me, as a good man did to-day, of my obligation to put all poor men in good...
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The Christian Teacher, Volume 4

1842 - 538 pages
...only such portions of it as take the former direction which are suited for public communication." " I shun father and mother, and wife and brother; when...me, I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope it is something better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation....
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home.' Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is...me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation. Expect...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home." Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is...affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it—else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home." Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is...affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it—else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles oft'. Thy love afar is spite at home." Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is...me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation. Expect...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home." Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is...mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me. J would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last,...
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