Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page xx
... common occupations that lies busy in the plain below . It is , indeed , his chief aim to invest the ordinary actualities of life with the deeper meaning and ever fresh interest and beauty which they have for the poet and seer , and to ...
... common occupations that lies busy in the plain below . It is , indeed , his chief aim to invest the ordinary actualities of life with the deeper meaning and ever fresh interest and beauty which they have for the poet and seer , and to ...
Page 76
... common nature . That third party or common nature is not social ; it is impersonal ; is God . And so in groups where debate is earnest , and especially on high questions , the company become aware that the thought rises to an equal ...
... common nature . That third party or common nature is not social ; it is impersonal ; is God . And so in groups where debate is earnest , and especially on high questions , the company become aware that the thought rises to an equal ...
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... common , nor the common the heroic . Yet we have the weakness to expect the sympathy of people in those actions whose excellence is that they outrun sympathy , and appeal to a tardy justice . If you would serve your brother , because it ...
... common , nor the common the heroic . Yet we have the weakness to expect the sympathy of people in those actions whose excellence is that they outrun sympathy , and appeal to a tardy justice . If you would serve your brother , because it ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | vii |
FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND I | 1 |
RACE AND ABILITY II | 11 |
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action animal appear beauty behold believe better character church conversation dæmon divine doctrine Emerson England English Ernest Rhys eternal evil eyes fact faith fear feel force genius give Havelock Ellis hear heart heaven honour hour human idea inspiration instinct intellect justice labour live look man's manual labour means Milton mind moral nations nature never numbers opinion party perfect persons Phidias philosophy Plato Plutarch poem poet poetry political Portrait present race reform relations religion religious Saxon scholar secret seems sense sentiment Shakespeare society solitude soul speak spirit stand Stoicism sublime SYDNEY DOBELL T. W. Rolleston talent thee things thou thought tion to-day Transcendental Transcendentalist true truth universal virtue Walter Lewin WALTER SCOTT whilst whole wise wish words write youth