Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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... fears , and how society is to escape without gravest mischiefs from this source- ? He has even said , what seemed a ... fear they lack a class of men of leisure , -in short , of gentlemen , to give a tone of honour to the community . I ...
... fears , and how society is to escape without gravest mischiefs from this source- ? He has even said , what seemed a ... fear they lack a class of men of leisure , -in short , of gentlemen , to give a tone of honour to the community . I ...
Page 67
... fear the transalpine good , so that his fear , his coldness , his custom may be broken up like frag- ments of ice , melted and carried away in the great stream of good will . Do you ask my aid ? I also wish to be a benefactor . I wish ...
... fear the transalpine good , so that his fear , his coldness , his custom may be broken up like frag- ments of ice , melted and carried away in the great stream of good will . Do you ask my aid ? I also wish to be a benefactor . I wish ...
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... fear in me . All the old abuses in society , universal and particular , all unjust accumulations of property and power , are avenged in the same manner . Fear is an instructor of great sagacity , and the herald of all revolutions . One ...
... fear in me . All the old abuses in society , universal and particular , all unjust accumulations of property and power , are avenged in the same manner . Fear is an instructor of great sagacity , and the herald of all revolutions . One ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | vii |
FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND I | 1 |
RACE AND ABILITY II | 11 |
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