The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in Six Volumes, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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Page 17
... master's hand . · Well done ! ' he cries ; the bear is kept at bay , The lynx , the rattlesnake , the flood , the fire : All the fierce enemies , ague , hunger , cold , This thin spruce roof , this clayed log wall , This wild plantation ...
... master's hand . · Well done ! ' he cries ; the bear is kept at bay , The lynx , the rattlesnake , the flood , the fire : All the fierce enemies , ague , hunger , cold , This thin spruce roof , this clayed log wall , This wild plantation ...
Page 33
... Masters , of the acute and upright Socrates , and of the stoic Zeno ; in Judæa , the advent of Jesus , and , in modern Christendom , of the realists Huss , Sa- vonarola and Luther , -are casual facts which carry forward races to new ...
... Masters , of the acute and upright Socrates , and of the stoic Zeno ; in Judæa , the advent of Jesus , and , in modern Christendom , of the realists Huss , Sa- vonarola and Luther , -are casual facts which carry forward races to new ...
Page 50
... master- piece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being , as much as a plant or a crystal . ' The whole language of men , especially of artists , in reference to this subject , points at the belief that every work of ...
... master- piece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being , as much as a plant or a crystal . ' The whole language of men , especially of artists , in reference to this subject , points at the belief that every work of ...
Page 61
... masters that whoever can speak can sing . So prob- ably every man is eloquent once in his life . Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat , or , we boil at different degrees . One man is brought to the boiling - point by the ...
... masters that whoever can speak can sing . So prob- ably every man is eloquent once in his life . Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat , or , we boil at different degrees . One man is brought to the boiling - point by the ...
Page 65
... master on the keys of the piano , - who , seeing the people furious , shall soften and compose them , shall draw them , when he will , to laughter and to tears . Bring him to his au- dience , and , be they who they may , — coarse or ...
... master on the keys of the piano , - who , seeing the people furious , shall soften and compose them , shall draw them , when he will , to laughter and to tears . Bring him to his au- dience , and , be they who they may , — coarse or ...
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