The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in Six Volumes, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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... less Stately lords in palaces , Princely women hard to please , Fenced by form and ceremony , Decked by courtly rites and dress And etiquette of gentilesse . But when the mate of the snow and wind , He left each civil scale behind : Him ...
... less Stately lords in palaces , Princely women hard to please , Fenced by form and ceremony , Decked by courtly rites and dress And etiquette of gentilesse . But when the mate of the snow and wind , He left each civil scale behind : Him ...
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... less . ' Tis not new facts that avail , but the heat to dissolve everybody's facts . Heat puts you in right relation with magazines of facts . The capital defect of cold , arid natures is the want of animal spirits . They seem a power ...
... less . ' Tis not new facts that avail , but the heat to dissolve everybody's facts . Heat puts you in right relation with magazines of facts . The capital defect of cold , arid natures is the want of animal spirits . They seem a power ...
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... less the popular measures of progress will ever be the arts and the laws . But if there be a country which cannot stand any one of these tests , -a country where know- ledge cannot be diffused without perils of mob law and statute law ...
... less the popular measures of progress will ever be the arts and the laws . But if there be a country which cannot stand any one of these tests , -a country where know- ledge cannot be diffused without perils of mob law and statute law ...
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... less but more true of the culture of men than of the tillage of land . And the highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number . " III ART I FRAMED ...
... less but more true of the culture of men than of the tillage of land . And the highest proof of civility is that the whole public action of the State is directed on securing the greatest good of the greatest number . " III ART I FRAMED ...
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... heavy with slumber . The individual mind became for the moment the vent of the mind of humanity . There is but one Reason . The mind that made the world is not one mind , but the mind . And every work of art is a more or less 50 ART.
... heavy with slumber . The individual mind became for the moment the vent of the mind of humanity . There is but one Reason . The mind that made the world is not one mind , but the mind . And every work of art is a more or less 50 ART.
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