The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitudeHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1912 |
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Page 12
... hours when we encountered the best persons , we then found ourselves , and then first society seemed to exist . That was society , though in the transom of a brig or on the Flor- ida Keys . ' A cold sluggish blood thinks it has not ...
... hours when we encountered the best persons , we then found ourselves , and then first society seemed to exist . That was society , though in the transom of a brig or on the Flor- ida Keys . ' A cold sluggish blood thinks it has not ...
Page 25
... hour , thereby supplying all the ship's want . - The skill that pervades complex details ; the man that maintains himself ; the chimney taught to burn its own smoke ; the farm made to pro- duce all that is consumed on it ; the very ...
... hour , thereby supplying all the ship's want . - The skill that pervades complex details ; the man that maintains himself ; the chimney taught to burn its own smoke ; the farm made to pro- duce all that is consumed on it ; the very ...
Page 49
... hour , and says what cannot but be said . Hence the term aban- donment , to describe the self - surrender of the orator . Not his will , but the principle on which he is horsed , the great connection and crisis of events , thunder in ...
... hour , and says what cannot but be said . Hence the term aban- donment , to describe the self - surrender of the orator . Not his will , but the principle on which he is horsed , the great connection and crisis of events , thunder in ...
Page 64
... hours , perhaps in a half hour's discourse , the convictions and habits of years . Young men , too , are eager to enjoy this sense of added power and enlarged sympathetic existence . The orator sees himself the organ of a multitude ...
... hours , perhaps in a half hour's discourse , the convictions and habits of years . Young men , too , are eager to enjoy this sense of added power and enlarged sympathetic existence . The orator sees himself the organ of a multitude ...
Page 70
... hours attentive to the most fanciful and extravagant adventures . The whole world knows pretty well the style of these improvisators , and how fascinating they are , in our translations of the Arabian Nights . Scheherezade tells these ...
... hours attentive to the most fanciful and extravagant adventures . The whole world knows pretty well the style of these improvisators , and how fascinating they are , in our translations of the Arabian Nights . Scheherezade tells these ...
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