The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitudeHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1912 |
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Page 37
... ment of its thought , modified and dwarfed by the impurity and untruth which in all our ex- perience injure the individuality through which it passes . The child not only suffers , but cries ; not only hungers , but eats . The man not ...
... ment of its thought , modified and dwarfed by the impurity and untruth which in all our ex- perience injure the individuality through which it passes . The child not only suffers , but cries ; not only hungers , but eats . The man not ...
Page 53
... ment of beauty that it has been taken for it . The most perfect form to answer an end is so far beautiful . We feel , in seeing a noble build- ing , which rhymes well , as we do in hearing a perfect song , that it is spiritually organic ...
... ment of beauty that it has been taken for it . The most perfect form to answer an end is so far beautiful . We feel , in seeing a noble build- ing , which rhymes well , as we do in hearing a perfect song , that it is spiritually organic ...
Page 62
... ment , is , to live under the government of worse men ; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors , as the penalty of abstaining to speak , that they shall hear worse orators than them- selves . ' But this lust to speak marks ...
... ment , is , to live under the government of worse men ; and the like regret is suggested to all the auditors , as the penalty of abstaining to speak , that they shall hear worse orators than them- selves . ' But this lust to speak marks ...
Page 79
... ment from the brain and will into the hands.1 Men and women are his game . Where they are , he cannot be without resource . " Whoso can speak well , " said Luther , " is a man . " It was men of this stamp that the Grecian States used to ...
... ment from the brain and will into the hands.1 Men and women are his game . Where they are , he cannot be without resource . " Whoso can speak well , " said Luther , " is a man . " It was men of this stamp that the Grecian States used to ...
Page 91
... possible of that truth which he is most unwilling to receive , a state- ment possible , so broad and so pungent that he cannot get away from it , but must either bend a man to it or die of it . Else there would ELOQUENCE 91.
... possible of that truth which he is most unwilling to receive , a state- ment possible , so broad and so pungent that he cannot get away from it , but must either bend a man to it or die of it . Else there would ELOQUENCE 91.
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