Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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... rich enough to buy a law . The game - laws are a proverb of oppression . Pauperism incrusts and clogs the state , and in hard times becomes hideous . In bad seasons the porridge was diluted . Multitudes lived miserably by shell - fish ...
... rich enough to buy a law . The game - laws are a proverb of oppression . Pauperism incrusts and clogs the state , and in hard times becomes hideous . In bad seasons the porridge was diluted . Multitudes lived miserably by shell - fish ...
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... rich , all eloquent , with thousand- cloven tongue , deign to repeat itself ; but if you can hear what these patriarchs say , surely you can reply to them in the same pitch of voice ; for the ear and the tongue are two organs of one ...
... rich , all eloquent , with thousand- cloven tongue , deign to repeat itself ; but if you can hear what these patriarchs say , surely you can reply to them in the same pitch of voice ; for the ear and the tongue are two organs of one ...
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... rich to encroach on the poor , and to keep them poor ; but mainly , because there is an instinctive sense , however obscure and yet inarticulate , that the whole constitution of property , on its present tenures , is injurious , and its ...
... rich to encroach on the poor , and to keep them poor ; but mainly , because there is an instinctive sense , however obscure and yet inarticulate , that the whole constitution of property , on its present tenures , is injurious , and its ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | vii |
FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND I | 1 |
RACE AND ABILITY II | 11 |
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