The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in Six Volumes, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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Page 29
... from their foreordained paths , neither the - sun , nor the moon , nor a bubble of air , nor a mote of dust . And as our handiworks borrow the elements , so all our social and political action leans on principles CIVILIZATION 29.
... from their foreordained paths , neither the - sun , nor the moon , nor a bubble of air , nor a mote of dust . And as our handiworks borrow the elements , so all our social and political action leans on principles CIVILIZATION 29.
Page 30
Ralph Waldo Emerson. so all our social and political action leans on principles . To accomplish anything excellent the will must work for catholic and universal ends . A puny creature , walled in on every side , as Daniel wrote ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. so all our social and political action leans on principles . To accomplish anything excellent the will must work for catholic and universal ends . A puny creature , walled in on every side , as Daniel wrote ...
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... Politics , Letters , Science , or - Religion - seem to feel , and to labor to ex- press , the identity of their law . They are rays of one sun ; they translate each into a new lan- guage the sense of the other . They are sub- lime when ...
... Politics , Letters , Science , or - Religion - seem to feel , and to labor to ex- press , the identity of their law . They are rays of one sun ; they translate each into a new lan- guage the sense of the other . They are sub- lime when ...
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... political economy . When we reflect on the pleasure we receive from a ship , a railroad , a dry - dock ; or from a picture , a dramatic representation , a statue , a poem , we find that these have not a quite simple , but a blended ...
... political economy . When we reflect on the pleasure we receive from a ship , a railroad , a dry - dock ; or from a picture , a dramatic representation , a statue , a poem , we find that these have not a quite simple , but a blended ...
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... political factions upon the merits of Phidias . In this country , at this time , other interests than religion and patriotism are predominant , and the arts , the daughters of enthusiasm , do not flourish . The genuine offspring of our ...
... political factions upon the merits of Phidias . In this country , at this time , other interests than religion and patriotism are predominant , and the arts , the daughters of enthusiasm , do not flourish . The genuine offspring of our ...
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