Essays, Volume 1David McKay, 1888 - 307 pages |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. 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 also . Thou shalt lie close hid with nature ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. 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 also . Thou shalt lie close hid with nature ...
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... gentleman who adapts his conversa- tion to the form of the head of the man he talks with ! I had fancied that the value of life lay in its inscrutable possibilities ; in the fact that I never know , in addressing myself to a new ...
... gentleman who adapts his conversa- tion to the form of the head of the man he talks with ! I had fancied that the value of life lay in its inscrutable possibilities ; in the fact that I never know , in addressing myself to a new ...
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... gentlemen in the street , shopmen or barkeepers in hotels , and threaten or insult whatever is threatenable and insultable in us . ' Tis the same with our idola- tries . People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon , and the ...
... gentlemen in the street , shopmen or barkeepers in hotels , and threaten or insult whatever is threatenable and insultable in us . ' Tis the same with our idola- tries . People forget that it is the eye which makes the horizon , and the ...
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... gentleman ? Chivalry is that , and loyalty is that , and , in English literature , half the drama , and all the novels , from Sir Philip Sidney to Sir Walter Scott , paint this figure . The word gentleman , which , like the word ...
... gentleman ? Chivalry is that , and loyalty is that , and , in English literature , half the drama , and all the novels , from Sir Philip Sidney to Sir Walter Scott , paint this figure . The word gentleman , which , like the word ...
Page 134
... gentleman has not any correlative abstract to express the quality . Gentility is mean , and gentilesse is obsolete . But we must keep alive in the ver- nacular , the distinction between fashion , a word of narrow and often sinister ...
... gentleman has not any correlative abstract to express the quality . Gentility is mean , and gentilesse is obsolete . But we must keep alive in the ver- nacular , the distinction between fashion , a word of narrow and often sinister ...
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