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It would be easy to add exceptions to the limitary tone of English thought , and much more easy to adduce examples of excellence in particular veins ; and if , going out of the region of dogma , we pass into that of general culture ...
It would be easy to add exceptions to the limitary tone of English thought , and much more easy to adduce examples of excellence in particular veins ; and if , going out of the region of dogma , we pass into that of general culture ...
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... and constrains every one to pass for what he is , and to speak from his character , and not from his tongue , and which evermore tends to pass into our thought and hand , and become wisdom , and virtue , and power , and beauty .
... and constrains every one to pass for what he is , and to speak from his character , and not from his tongue , and which evermore tends to pass into our thought and hand , and become wisdom , and virtue , and power , and beauty .
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A boy is in the parlour what the pit is in the play - house ; independent , irresponsible , looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by , he tries and sentences them on their merits , in the swift summary way of boys ...
A boy is in the parlour what the pit is in the play - house ; independent , irresponsible , looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by , he tries and sentences them on their merits , in the swift summary way of boys ...
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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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