The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitudeHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1912 |
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... talents determined on some specialty , which a culminating civilization fosters in the heart of great cities and in royal chambers . Nature protects her own work . To the culture of the world an Archimedes , a New- ton is indispensable ...
... talents determined on some specialty , which a culminating civilization fosters in the heart of great cities and in royal chambers . Nature protects her own work . To the culture of the world an Archimedes , a New- ton is indispensable ...
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... talent and there another . The audience is a constant meter of the ora- tor . There are many audiences in every public assembly , each one of which rules in turn . If any- thing comic and coarse is spoken , you shall see the emergence ...
... talent and there another . The audience is a constant meter of the ora- tor . There are many audiences in every public assembly , each one of which rules in turn . If any- thing comic and coarse is spoken , you shall see the emergence ...
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... talent of telling endless feats of fairies and magicians and kings and queens , was more dear and wonderful to a circle of children than any orator in England or America is now ? * The more indolent and imaginative complexion of the ...
... talent of telling endless feats of fairies and magicians and kings and queens , was more dear and wonderful to a circle of children than any orator in England or America is now ? * The more indolent and imaginative complexion of the ...
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... talent ? See with what care and pleasure the poet brings him on the stage . Helen is pointing out to Priam , from a tower , the differ- ent Grecian chiefs . " The old man asked : ' Tell me , dear child , who is that man , shorter by a ...
... talent ? See with what care and pleasure the poet brings him on the stage . Helen is pointing out to Priam , from a tower , the differ- ent Grecian chiefs . " The old man asked : ' Tell me , dear child , who is that man , shorter by a ...
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... talent , though it be , in so many cases , nothing more than a facility of expressing with accuracy and speed what everybody thinks and says more slowly ; without new information , or precision of thought , but the same thing , neither ...
... talent , though it be , in so many cases , nothing more than a facility of expressing with accuracy and speed what everybody thinks and says more slowly ; without new information , or precision of thought , but the same thing , neither ...
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