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But concert is neither better nor worse , neither more nor less potent than individual force . All the men in the world cannot make a statue walk and speak , cannot make a drop of blood , or a blade of grass , any more than one man can ...
But concert is neither better nor worse , neither more nor less potent than individual force . All the men in the world cannot make a statue walk and speak , cannot make a drop of blood , or a blade of grass , any more than one man can ...
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Abbé Ménage said of the President Le Bailleul , " that he was fit for nothing but to sit for his portrait . ” A Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty , but when the like desire is inflamed ...
Abbé Ménage said of the President Le Bailleul , " that he was fit for nothing but to sit for his portrait . ” A Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty , but when the like desire is inflamed ...
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Much has been blind and discreditable , but the nature of the revolution is not affected by the vices of the revolters .; for this is a purely moral force . It was never adopted by any party in history , neither can be .
Much has been blind and discreditable , but the nature of the revolution is not affected by the vices of the revolters .; for this is a purely moral force . It was never adopted by any party in history , neither can be .
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | vii |
FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND I | 1 |
RACE AND ABILITY II | 11 |
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| Title | Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson The Camelot series |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | W. Scott, 1888 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 19 Sep 2005 |
| Length | 351 pages |
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