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In the sublimest flights of the soul , rectitude is never surmounted , love is never outgrown . This sentiment lies at the foundation of society , and successively creates all forms of worship . The principle of veneration never dies ...
In the sublimest flights of the soul , rectitude is never surmounted , love is never outgrown . This sentiment lies at the foundation of society , and successively creates all forms of worship . The principle of veneration never dies ...
Page 238
Revolutions never go backward , and in all churches à certain decay of ancient piety is lamented , and all threatens to lapse into apathy and indifferentism . It becomes us to consider whether we cannot have a real faith and real ...
Revolutions never go backward , and in all churches à certain decay of ancient piety is lamented , and all threatens to lapse into apathy and indifferentism . It becomes us to consider whether we cannot have a real faith and real ...
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So many promising youths , and never a finished man : The profound nature will have a savage rudeness ; the delicate one will be shallow , or the victim of sensibility ; the richly accomplished will have some capital absurdity ; and so ...
So many promising youths , and never a finished man : The profound nature will have a savage rudeness ; the delicate one will be shallow , or the victim of sensibility ; the richly accomplished will have some capital absurdity ; and so ...
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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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