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" We imitate; and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind? Our houses are built with foreign taste; our shelves are garnished with foreign ornaments; our opinions, our tastes, our faculties lean, and follow the Past and the Distant. "
The Essay on Self-reliance - Page 43
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 51 pages
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...intellectual action. The intellect is vagabond, and the universal system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay...at home. We imitate ; and what is imitation but the traveling of the mind? Our houses are built with foreign taste ; our shelves are garnished with foreign...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...intellectual action. The intellect is vagabond, and the universal system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay...mistress. The soul created the arts wherever they have nourished. It was in his own mind that the artist sought his model. It was an application of his own...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...intellectual action. The intellect is vagabond, and the universal system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay...travelling of the mind ? Our houses are built with foretgn taste ; our shelves are garnished with foreign ornaments ; our opinions, our tastes, our whole...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...whole intellectual action. The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay...foreign ornaments ; our opinions, our tastes, our faculties, lean, and follow the Past and the Distant. The soul created the arts wherever they have...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...intellectual action. The intellect is vagabond, and the universal system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay...and what is imitation but the travelling of the mind 1 Our houses are built with foreign taste ; our shelves are garnished with foreign ornaments ; our...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...whole intellectual action. The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay...foreign ornaments ; our opinions, our tastes, our faculties, lean, and follow the Past and the Distant. The soul created the arts wherever they have...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 356 pages
...whole intellectual action. The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay...foreign ornaments ; our opinions, our tastes, our faculties, lean, and follow the Past and the Distant. The soul created the arts wherever they have...
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Essays [1st ser., ed.] with preface by T. Carlyle

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...whole intellectual action. The intellect is vagabond, and our system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay...with foreign ornaments; our opinions, our tastes, our faculties lean, and follow the Past and the Distant. The soul created the arts wherever they have flourished....
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The Prose Writers of America: With a Survey of the Intellectual History ...

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1856 - 592 pages
...vagabond, and the universal system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies arc forced to stay at home. We imitate; and what is imitation...houses are built with foreign taste ; our shelves arc garnished with foreign ornaments; our opinions, our tastes, our whole minds lean, and follow the...
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A Compendium of American Literature

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 752 pages
...intellectual action. The intellect is vagabond, and the universal system of education fosters restlessness. Our minds travel when our bodies are forced to stay...; our shelves are garnished with foreign ornaments ; onr opinions, our tastes, our whole minds lean, and follow the past and the distant, as the eyes...
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