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Select Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 57
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 245 pages
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The Boston Quarterly Review, Volume 1

1838 - 536 pages
...find themselves not in the state of mind of their fathers, and regret the coming state as untried." " If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution ? " " One of the auspicious signs of coming days is the fact, that the same movement which effected...
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The Monthly magazine

Monthly literary register - 1840 - 694 pages
...mere announcement of the fact, that they find themselves not in the state of their fathers, and repel the coming state as untried, as a boy dreads the water before he has learned that he can swim." The high-soulecl and free-spirited writer has to bide his time— has to fight a battle with the world,...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...the literary class, as a mere announcement of the fact, that they find themselves not in the state of mind of their fathers, and regret the coming state...If there is any period one would desire to be born m, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...the literary class, as a mere announcement of the fact, that they find themselves not in the state of mind of their fathers, and regret the coming state...If there is any period one would desire to be born in,—is it not the age of Revolution ; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being...
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Nature; Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...the literary class, as a mere announcement of the fact, that they find themselves not in the state of mind of their fathers, and regret the coming state...the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope ; when the historic glories...
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...the literary class, as a mere announcement of the fact, that they find themselves not in the state of mind of their fathers, and regret the coming state...the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared ; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories...
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 pages
...the literary class, as a mere announcement of the fact, that they find themselves not in the state of mind of their fathers, and regret the coming state...; as a boy dreads the water before he has learned \hat he can swim. If there is any period one would desire to be born in, — is it not the age of Revolution;...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 64

1889 - 876 pages
...very existence of their city is unproven. HWP and LD FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION. EMERSON says, " If there is any period one would desire to be born...in, is it not the age of revolution, . . . when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope ? " New England, for many years before the civil...
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 410 pages
...the literary class, as a mere announcement of the fact, that they find themselves not in the state of mind of their fathers, and regret the coming state...there is any period one would desire to be born in, — ia it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays ..., Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...the literary class, as a mere announcement of the fact, that they find themselves not in the state of mind of their fathers, and regret the coming state...the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared ; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope ; when the historic...
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