The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitudeHoughton Mifflin, 1904 |
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... never detain the eye for a moment . He went to Vienna , to Smyrna , to London . In all the variety of costumes , a carnival , a kaleidoscope of clothes , to his horror he could never discover a man in the street who - — wore anything ...
... never detain the eye for a moment . He went to Vienna , to Smyrna , to London . In all the variety of costumes , a carnival , a kaleidoscope of clothes , to his horror he could never discover a man in the street who - — wore anything ...
Page 7
... never invited to dinner . Michel Angelo had a sad , sour time of it . The ministers of beauty are rarely beautiful in coaches and saloons . Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself . Yet each of these potentates saw well ...
... never invited to dinner . Michel Angelo had a sad , sour time of it . The ministers of beauty are rarely beautiful in coaches and saloons . Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself . Yet each of these potentates saw well ...
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... Never his lands or his rents , but the power to charm the disguised soul that sits veiled under this bearded and that rosy visage is his rent and ration . His products are as needful as those of the baker or the weaver . Society cannot ...
... Never his lands or his rents , but the power to charm the disguised soul that sits veiled under this bearded and that rosy visage is his rent and ration . His products are as needful as those of the baker or the weaver . Society cannot ...
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... liberty . Climate has much to do with this melioration . The highest civility has never loved the hot zones . Wherever snow falls there is usually civil freedom . ' Where the banana grows the animal system CIVILIZATION 25.
... liberty . Climate has much to do with this melioration . The highest civility has never loved the hot zones . Wherever snow falls there is usually civil freedom . ' Where the banana grows the animal system CIVILIZATION 25.
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... never tires of turn- ing his wheel ; the river is good - natured , and never hints an objection . We had letters to send : couriers could not go fast enough nor far enough ; broke their wagons , foundered their horses ; bad roads in ...
... never tires of turn- ing his wheel ; the river is good - natured , and never hints an objection . We had letters to send : couriers could not go fast enough nor far enough ; broke their wagons , foundered their horses ; bad roads in ...
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