The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson in Six Volumes, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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Page 7
... seems entitled to marry ; for how can he protect a woman , who cannot protect himself ? We pray to be conventional . But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be , if there is anything good in you . Dante was very bad com- pany , and ...
... seems entitled to marry ; for how can he protect a woman , who cannot protect himself ? We pray to be conventional . But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be , if there is anything good in you . Dante was very bad com- pany , and ...
Page 12
... seem a power incredible , as if God should raise the dead . The recluse witnesses what others perform by their aid , with a kind of fear . It is as much out of his possibility as the prowess of Coeur - de - Lion , or an Irishman's day's ...
... seem a power incredible , as if God should raise the dead . The recluse witnesses what others perform by their aid , with a kind of fear . It is as much out of his possibility as the prowess of Coeur - de - Lion , or an Irishman's day's ...
Page 42
... seems to have no option about his tools , but merely the neces- sity to learn from Nature what will fit best , as if he were fitting a screw or a door . Beneath a necessity thus almighty , what is artificial in man's life seems ...
... seems to have no option about his tools , but merely the neces- sity to learn from Nature what will fit best , as if he were fitting a screw or a door . Beneath a necessity thus almighty , what is artificial in man's life seems ...
Page 51
... seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed Nature , again in active operation . It differs from the works of Nature in this , that they are organic- ally reproductive . This is not , but spiritually it is prolific by ...
... seems to arise from our recognizing in it the mind that formed Nature , again in active operation . It differs from the works of Nature in this , that they are organic- ally reproductive . This is not , but spiritually it is prolific by ...
Page 71
... , walks about the bands of the men . He seems to me like a stately ram , who goes as a master of the flock . ' Him answered Helen , daughter of Jove , ' This is the wise Ulysses , son of Laertes , who was reared ELOQUENCE 71.
... , walks about the bands of the men . He seems to me like a stately ram , who goes as a master of the flock . ' Him answered Helen , daughter of Jove , ' This is the wise Ulysses , son of Laertes , who was reared ELOQUENCE 71.
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