The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative menHoughton Mifflin, 1903 |
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Page 158
... that chiefest beauty of spontaneousness . Excel- lent is culture for a savage ; but once let him read in the book , and he is no longer able not to think of Plutarch's heroes . In short , since 158 REPRESENTATIVE MEN.
... that chiefest beauty of spontaneousness . Excel- lent is culture for a savage ; but once let him read in the book , and he is no longer able not to think of Plutarch's heroes . In short , since 158 REPRESENTATIVE MEN.
Page 159
Ralph Waldo Emerson. to think of Plutarch's heroes . In short , since true fortitude of understanding consists " in not letting what we know be embarrassed by what we do not know , " we ought to secure those ad- vantages which we can ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. to think of Plutarch's heroes . In short , since true fortitude of understanding consists " in not letting what we know be embarrassed by what we do not know , " we ought to secure those ad- vantages which we can ...
Page 192
... the boards . Here is the Tale of Troy , which the audience will bear hearing some part of , every week ; the Death of Julius Cæsar , and other stories out of Plutarch , which they never tire of 192 REPRESENTATIVE MEN.
... the boards . Here is the Tale of Troy , which the audience will bear hearing some part of , every week ; the Death of Julius Cæsar , and other stories out of Plutarch , which they never tire of 192 REPRESENTATIVE MEN.
Page 193
Ralph Waldo Emerson. stories out of Plutarch , which they never tire of ; a shelf full of English history , from the chroni- cles of Brut and Arthur , down to the royal Henries , which men hear eagerly ; and a string of doleful tragedies ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. stories out of Plutarch , which they never tire of ; a shelf full of English history , from the chroni- cles of Brut and Arthur , down to the royal Henries , which men hear eagerly ; and a string of doleful tragedies ...
Page 200
... Plutarch gets its excellence by being trans- lation on translation . There never was a time when there was none . All the truly idiomatic and national phrases are kept , and all others successively picked out and thrown away . Some ...
... Plutarch gets its excellence by being trans- lation on translation . There never was a time when there was none . All the truly idiomatic and national phrases are kept , and all others successively picked out and thrown away . Some ...
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