The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitudeHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1912 |
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Page 9
... warm cov- enants sentimental and momentary . We must infer that the ends of thought were peremptory , if they were to be secured at such ruinous cost . They are deeper than can be told , and belong SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE 9.
... warm cov- enants sentimental and momentary . We must infer that the ends of thought were peremptory , if they were to be secured at such ruinous cost . They are deeper than can be told , and belong SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE 9.
Page 19
... thought , we call barbarous . And after many arts are in- vented or imported , as among the Turks and Moorish nations , it is often a little complaisant to call them civilized . Each nation grows after its own genius , and has a ...
... thought , we call barbarous . And after many arts are in- vented or imported , as among the Turks and Moorish nations , it is often a little complaisant to call them civilized . Each nation grows after its own genius , and has a ...
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... thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women . Another measure of culture is the diffusion of knowledge , overrunning all the old barriers of caste , and , by the cheap press , bringing the uni- versity to ...
... thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women . Another measure of culture is the diffusion of knowledge , overrunning all the old barriers of caste , and , by the cheap press , bringing the uni- versity to ...
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... thought and many experiments we man- aged to meet the conditions , and to fold up the letter in such invisible compact form as he could carry in those invisible pockets of his , never wrought by needle and thread , —and it went like a ...
... thought and many experiments we man- aged to meet the conditions , and to fold up the letter in such invisible compact form as he could carry in those invisible pockets of his , never wrought by needle and thread , —and it went like a ...
Page 37
... thought and instinct , the human mind on the other side tends , by an equal necessity , to the publication and embodi- ment of its thought , modified and dwarfed by the impurity and untruth which in all our ex- perience injure the ...
... thought and instinct , the human mind on the other side tends , by an equal necessity , to the publication and embodi- ment of its thought , modified and dwarfed by the impurity and untruth which in all our ex- perience injure the ...
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