The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in Six Volumes, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1929 |
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Page 113
... hear an endless chatter and blast ; to be compelled to criticise ; to hear only to dis- sent and to be disgusted ; to find no invitation to what is good in us , and no receptacle for what is wise : this is a great price to pay for sweet ...
... hear an endless chatter and blast ; to be compelled to criticise ; to hear only to dis- sent and to be disgusted ; to find no invitation to what is good in us , and no receptacle for what is wise : this is a great price to pay for sweet ...
Page 334
... hear him , but could not get into the house ; — " " I , however , saw him , " he said , " through a window , and distinctly heard all . He had a voice such as I never heard before or since . He cast it out so that you might hear it at ...
... hear him , but could not get into the house ; — " " I , however , saw him , " he said , " through a window , and distinctly heard all . He had a voice such as I never heard before or since . He cast it out so that you might hear it at ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. had used every opportunity to hear the finished speakers of that day , when rhetoric and oratory were more prized than now . In those days apparently the great body of the students at Cambridge voluntarily went to hear ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. had used every opportunity to hear the finished speakers of that day , when rhetoric and oratory were more prized than now . In those days apparently the great body of the students at Cambridge voluntarily went to hear ...
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