Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page 19
... question , " Pray , sir , how do you get your living when you are at home ? " The questions of freedom , of taxation , of privilege , are money questions . Heavy fellows , steeped in beer and fleshpots , they are hard of hearing and dim ...
... question , " Pray , sir , how do you get your living when you are at home ? " The questions of freedom , of taxation , of privilege , are money questions . Heavy fellows , steeped in beer and fleshpots , they are hard of hearing and dim ...
Page 80
... question of continuance . No inspired man ever asks this question or condescends to these evidences . For the soul is true to itself , and the man in whom it is shed abroad cannot wander from the present , which is infinite , to a ...
... question of continuance . No inspired man ever asks this question or condescends to these evidences . For the soul is true to itself , and the man in whom it is shed abroad cannot wander from the present , which is infinite , to a ...
Page 250
... question as the Slave trade be agitated for forty years by all the Christian nations , without throwing great light ... question , which rides the conversation of ten thousand circles , and is tacitly recalled at every public and at ...
... question as the Slave trade be agitated for forty years by all the Christian nations , without throwing great light ... question , which rides the conversation of ten thousand circles , and is tacitly recalled at every public and at ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | vii |
FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND I | 1 |
RACE AND ABILITY II | 11 |
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