Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page 106
... sense to a common want . It is best to pay in your land a skilful gardener , or to buy good sense applied to gardening ; in your sailor , good sense applied to navigation ; in the house , good sense applied to cooking , sewing , serving ...
... sense to a common want . It is best to pay in your land a skilful gardener , or to buy good sense applied to gardening ; in your sailor , good sense applied to navigation ; in the house , good sense applied to cooking , sewing , serving ...
Page 227
... sense in their humble walk that the man who is their enemy or friend does ; and if it be in smaller measure , yet it is not diminished , as his often is , by freak and folly . St. Pierre says of the animals that a moral sentiment seems ...
... sense in their humble walk that the man who is their enemy or friend does ; and if it be in smaller measure , yet it is not diminished , as his often is , by freak and folly . St. Pierre says of the animals that a moral sentiment seems ...
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... sense , admits their coherency , their use and beauty , and then asks the materialist for his grounds of as- surance that things are as his senses represent them . But I , he says , affirm facts not affected by the allusions of sense ...
... sense , admits their coherency , their use and beauty , and then asks the materialist for his grounds of as- surance that things are as his senses represent them . But I , he says , affirm facts not affected by the allusions of sense ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | vii |
FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND I | 1 |
RACE AND ABILITY II | 11 |
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action animal appear beauty behold believe better character church conversation dæmon divine doctrine Emerson England English Ernest Rhys eternal evil eyes fact faith fear feel force genius give Havelock Ellis hear heart heaven honour hour human idea inspiration instinct intellect justice labour live look man's manual labour means Milton mind moral nations nature never numbers opinion party perfect persons Phidias philosophy Plato Plutarch poem poet poetry political Portrait present race reform relations religion religious Saxon scholar secret seems sense sentiment Shakespeare society solitude soul speak spirit stand Stoicism sublime SYDNEY DOBELL T. W. Rolleston talent thee things thou thought tion to-day Transcendental Transcendentalist true truth universal virtue Walter Lewin WALTER SCOTT whilst whole wise wish words write youth