Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page 67
... wish to be a benefactor . I wish more to be a benefactor and servant than you wish to be served by me , and surely the greatest good fortune that could befall me is precisely to be so moved by you that I should say , " Take me and all ...
... wish to be a benefactor . I wish more to be a benefactor and servant than you wish to be served by me , and surely the greatest good fortune that could befall me is precisely to be so moved by you that I should say , " Take me and all ...
Page 258
... wish to be guilty of the narrowness and pedantry of inferring the tendency and genius of the Age from a few and insufficient facts or persons . Every age has a thousand sides and signs and tendencies ; and it is only when surveyed from ...
... wish to be guilty of the narrowness and pedantry of inferring the tendency and genius of the Age from a few and insufficient facts or persons . Every age has a thousand sides and signs and tendencies ; and it is only when surveyed from ...
Page 267
... wish to be loved . Like the young Mozart , they are rather ready to cry ten times a day , " But are you sure you love me ? " Nay , if they tell you their whole thought , they will own that love seems to them the last and highest gift of ...
... wish to be loved . Like the young Mozart , they are rather ready to cry ten times a day , " But are you sure you love me ? " Nay , if they tell you their whole thought , they will own that love seems to them the last and highest gift of ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | vii |
FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND I | 1 |
RACE AND ABILITY II | 11 |
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