The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitudeHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1912 |
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... admired in Newton not so much his theory of the moon as his letter to Collins , in which he forbade him to insert his name with the solution of the problem in the Philosophical Trans- actions : " It would perhaps increase my ac ...
... admired in Newton not so much his theory of the moon as his letter to Collins , in which he forbade him to insert his name with the solution of the problem in the Philosophical Trans- actions : " It would perhaps increase my ac ...
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... admired , but bring him hand to hand , he is a cripple . ' One protects himself by solitude , and one by courtesy , and one by an acid , worldly manner , - each concealing how he can the thinness of his skin and his incapacity for ...
... admired , but bring him hand to hand , he is a cripple . ' One protects himself by solitude , and one by courtesy , and one by an acid , worldly manner , - each concealing how he can the thinness of his skin and his incapacity for ...
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... admired , but bring him hand to hand , he is a cripple . ' One protects himself by solitude , and one by courtesy , and one by an acid , worldly manner , - each concealing how he can the thinness of his skin and his incapacity for ...
... admired , but bring him hand to hand , he is a cripple . ' One protects himself by solitude , and one by courtesy , and one by an acid , worldly manner , - each concealing how he can the thinness of his skin and his incapacity for ...
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... 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 the moon , like a hired hand , to grind , and wind , and pump , and ...
... 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 the moon , like a hired hand , to grind , and wind , and pump , and ...
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... admired , not by his friends or his towns - people or his contemporaries , but by all men , and which is to be more beautiful to the eye in proportion to its culture , must disindividualize himself , and be a man of no party and no ...
... admired , not by his friends or his towns - people or his contemporaries , but by all men , and which is to be more beautiful to the eye in proportion to its culture , must disindividualize himself , and be a man of no party and no ...
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admired Æschylus American Aristophanes audience beauty Ben Jonson better Boston boys bring called charm civil club Concord conversation courage dæmons delight Demosthenes divine eloquence Emerson wrote essay eternal eyes face fact farmer feel genius give Goethe Greece Greek happy hear heart Horatio Greenough hour human intellect John Brown Jotun journal labor land lecture live look Margaret Fuller master means ment mind moral Nature never Odoacer orator passage person Phi Beta Kappa Phocion plants Plato pleasure Plutarch poem poet poetry Ralph Waldo Emerson Saadi scholar seems sentence sentiment Seven Wise Masters Shakspeare society Socrates solitude soul speak speech spirit talent things thought tion town ture whilst wise wish words write young youth