The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in Six Volumes, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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... experience . " A man is born by the side of his father , and there he remains . " A man must be clothed with society , or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty , as of a displaced and unfurnished member . He is to be dressed in ...
... experience . " A man is born by the side of his father , and there he remains . " A man must be clothed with society , or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty , as of a displaced and unfurnished member . He is to be dressed in ...
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... experience , requiring a large com- posite man , such as Nature rarely organizes ; so that in our experience we are forced to gather up the figure in fragments , here one talent and there another . The audience is a constant meter of ...
... experience , requiring a large com- posite man , such as Nature rarely organizes ; so that in our experience we are forced to gather up the figure in fragments , here one talent and there another . The audience is a constant meter of ...
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... experience of hers . Her speech flows like a river , -so unconsidered , so humorous , so pa- thetic , such justice done to all the parts ! ' It is a true transubstantiation , —the fact converted into speech , all warm and colored and ...
... experience of hers . Her speech flows like a river , -so unconsidered , so humorous , so pa- thetic , such justice done to all the parts ! ' It is a true transubstantiation , —the fact converted into speech , all warm and colored and ...
Page 75
... experience of public affairs , when they observe the dispropor- tionate advantage suddenly given to oratory over the most solid and accumulated public ser- vice . In a Senate or other business committee , the solid result depends on a ...
... experience of public affairs , when they observe the dispropor- tionate advantage suddenly given to oratory over the most solid and accumulated public ser- vice . In a Senate or other business committee , the solid result depends on a ...
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... experience into a glowing symbol , and an audience is electrified . They feel as if they already possessed some new right and power over a fact which they can detach , and so completely master in thought . It is a wonder- ful aid to the ...
... experience into a glowing symbol , and an audience is electrified . They feel as if they already possessed some new right and power over a fact which they can detach , and so completely master in thought . It is a wonder- ful aid to the ...
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