The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in Six Volumes, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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Page 4
... never detain the eye for a moment . He went to Vienna , to Smyrna , to London . In all the variety of costumes , a carnival , a kaleidoscope of clothes , to his horror he could never discover a man in the street who - wore anything like ...
... never detain the eye for a moment . He went to Vienna , to Smyrna , to London . In all the variety of costumes , a carnival , a kaleidoscope of clothes , to his horror he could never discover a man in the street who - wore anything like ...
Page 11
... Never his lands or his rents , but the power to charm the disguised soul that sits veiled under this bearded and that rosy visage is his rent and ration . His products are as needful as those of the baker or the weaver . Society cannot ...
... Never his lands or his rents , but the power to charm the disguised soul that sits veiled under this bearded and that rosy visage is his rent and ration . His products are as needful as those of the baker or the weaver . Society cannot ...
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... liberty . Climate has much to do with this melioration . The highest civility has never loved the hot zones . Wherever snow falls there is usually civil freedom . ' Where the banana grows the animal system CIVILIZATION 25.
... liberty . Climate has much to do with this melioration . The highest civility has never loved the hot zones . Wherever snow falls there is usually civil freedom . ' Where the banana grows the animal system CIVILIZATION 25.
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... never tires of turn- ing his wheel ; the river is good - natured , and never hints an objection . We had letters to send : couriers could not go fast enough nor far enough ; broke their wagons , foundered their horses ; bad roads in ...
... never tires of turn- ing his wheel ; the river is good - natured , and never hints an objection . We had letters to send : couriers could not go fast enough nor far enough ; broke their wagons , foundered their horses ; bad roads in ...
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... never wrought by needle and thread , and it went like a charm . — I admire still more than the saw - mill the skill which , on the seashore , makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn , and which thus en- gages the assistance of ...
... never wrought by needle and thread , and it went like a charm . — I admire still more than the saw - mill the skill which , on the seashore , makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn , and which thus en- gages the assistance of ...
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