The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in Six Volumes, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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Page 74
... expressing with accuracy and speed what everybody thinks and says more slowly ; without new information , or precision of thought , but the same thing , neither less nor more . It requires no special insight to edit one of our country ...
... expressing with accuracy and speed what everybody thinks and says more slowly ; without new information , or precision of thought , but the same thing , neither less nor more . It requires no special insight to edit one of our country ...
Page 81
... expression . It is as surely felt as a mountain or a planet ; but when it is weaponed with a power of speech , it seems first to become truly human , works actively in all directions , and supplies the imagination with fine materials ...
... expression . It is as surely felt as a mountain or a planet ; but when it is weaponed with a power of speech , it seems first to become truly human , works actively in all directions , and supplies the imagination with fine materials ...
Page 89
... expressions fix themselves in men's memories , and fly from mouth to mouth . His mind has some new principle of order . Where he looks , all things fly into their places . What will he say next ? Let this man speak , and this man only ...
... expressions fix themselves in men's memories , and fly from mouth to mouth . His mind has some new principle of order . Where he looks , all things fly into their places . What will he say next ? Let this man speak , and this man only ...
Page 92
... it rushes from him as in short , abrupt screams , in torrents of meaning . The possession the subject has of his mind is so en- tire that it insures an order of expression which is the order of Nature itself , and so the 92 ELOQUENCE.
... it rushes from him as in short , abrupt screams , in torrents of meaning . The possession the subject has of his mind is so en- tire that it insures an order of expression which is the order of Nature itself , and so the 92 ELOQUENCE.
Page 126
... expressions of face . He perceives that Nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building , if the soul will build thereon . There is no face , no form , which one cannot in fancy associate with great power of intellect or ...
... expressions of face . He perceives that Nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building , if the soul will build thereon . There is no face , no form , which one cannot in fancy associate with great power of intellect or ...
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