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For the real price of labour is knowledge and virtue , whereof wealth and credit are signs . These signs , like paper money , may be counterfeited or stolen , but that which they represent , namely , knowledge and virtue , cannot be ...
For the real price of labour is knowledge and virtue , whereof wealth and credit are signs . These signs , like paper money , may be counterfeited or stolen , but that which they represent , namely , knowledge and virtue , cannot be ...
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Round him I must revolve by the gravitation of spirits , We fancy it I rhetoric , when we speak of eminent virtue . We do not yet see that virtue is Height , and that a man or a company of men , plastic and permeable to principles ...
Round him I must revolve by the gravitation of spirits , We fancy it I rhetoric , when we speak of eminent virtue . We do not yet see that virtue is Height , and that a man or a company of men , plastic and permeable to principles ...
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I am afraid our virtue is a little geographical . I am not mortified by our vice ; that is obduracy ; it colours and palters , it curses and swears , and I can see to the end of it , but , I own our virtue makes me ashamed ; so sour and ...
I am afraid our virtue is a little geographical . I am not mortified by our vice ; that is obduracy ; it colours and palters , it curses and swears , and I can see to the end of it , but , I own our virtue makes me ashamed ; so sour and ...
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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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