Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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... and such lax discipline as great boys have ? The costly charm of the ancient tragedy , and indeed of all the old literature , is , that the persons speak simply - speak as persons who have great good sense 14 EMERSON'S ESSAYS.
... and such lax discipline as great boys have ? The costly charm of the ancient tragedy , and indeed of all the old literature , is , that the persons speak simply - speak as persons who have great good sense 14 EMERSON'S ESSAYS.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. simply - speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet the reflective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old , but ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. simply - speak as persons who have great good sense without knowing it , before yet the reflective habit has become the predominant habit of the mind . Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old , but ...
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... speak ; and the like - I find true in Concord , however they might be in Cornwall or Bretagne . Is it otherwise in the newest romance ? I read the Bride of Lammermoor . Sir William Ashton is a mask for a vulgar temptation , Ravenswood ...
... speak ; and the like - I find true in Concord , however they might be in Cornwall or Bretagne . Is it otherwise in the newest romance ? I read the Bride of Lammermoor . Sir William Ashton is a mask for a vulgar temptation , Ravenswood ...
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... Speak your latent conviction , and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost , -and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment . Familiar as the voice of the mind ...
... Speak your latent conviction , and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost , -and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment . Familiar as the voice of the mind ...
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... speak to you and me . Hark ! in the next room his voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic . It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries . Bashful or bold , then , he will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary . The ...
... speak to you and me . Hark ! in the next room his voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic . It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries . Bashful or bold , then , he will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary . The ...
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