Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page 107
... 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 counterfeited or stolen . These ends of labour ...
... 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 counterfeited or stolen . These ends of labour ...
Page 125
... virtue . We do not yet see that virtue is Height , and that a man or a company of men , plastic and permeable to principles , by the law of nature must overpower and ride all cities , nations , kings , rich men , poets , who are not ...
... virtue . We do not yet see that virtue is Height , and that a man or a company of men , plastic and permeable to principles , by the law of nature must overpower and ride all cities , nations , kings , rich men , poets , who are not ...
Page 290
... virtue of being identical in nature . This interest , of course , with its whole power demands a democracy . Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal , in virtue of their access to reason , their rights in property are very unequal ...
... virtue of being identical in nature . This interest , of course , with its whole power demands a democracy . Whilst the rights of all as persons are equal , in virtue of their access to reason , their rights in property are very unequal ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | vii |
FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND I | 1 |
RACE AND ABILITY II | 11 |
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