The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 5-6Wm. H. Wise, 1903 |
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... American artist , ' from the Tower up through Cheapside and the Strand to a house in Russell Square , whither we had been recom- mended to good chambers . For the first time for many months we were forced to check the saucy habit of ...
... American artist , ' from the Tower up through Cheapside and the Strand to a house in Russell Square , whither we had been recom- mended to good chambers . For the first time for many months we were forced to check the saucy habit of ...
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... American sculptor . ' His face was so handsome and his person so well formed that he might be pardoned , if , as was alleged , the face of his Medora and the figure of a colossal Achilles in clay , were ideal- izations of his own ...
... American sculptor . ' His face was so handsome and his person so well formed that he might be pardoned , if , as was alleged , the face of his Medora and the figure of a colossal Achilles in clay , were ideal- izations of his own ...
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... America , and I proceeded to inquire if the " extract " from the Independent's pamphlet , in the third volume of the Friend , were a veritable quotation . He replied that it was really taken from a pamphlet in his possession entitled ...
... America , and I proceeded to inquire if the " extract " from the Independent's pamphlet , in the third volume of the Friend , were a veritable quotation . He replied that it was really taken from a pamphlet in his possession entitled ...
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... America . Landor's principle was mere rebellion ; and that he feared was the American principle . The best thing he knew of that country was that in it a man can have meat for his labor . He had read in Stewart's book that when he ...
... America . Landor's principle was mere rebellion ; and that he feared was the American principle . The best thing he knew of that country was that in it a man can have meat for his labor . He had read in Stewart's book that when he ...
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... America an early favorite . Rousseau's Con- fessions had discovered to him that he was not a dunce ; and it was now ten years since he had learned German , by the advice of a man who told him he would find in that language what he ...
... America an early favorite . Rousseau's Con- fessions had discovered to him that he was not a dunce ; and it was now ten years since he had learned German , by the advice of a man who told him he would find in that language what he ...
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American Arthur Hugh Clough beauty better Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich British Carlyle Causes Célèbres character Chartist church culture Duke Emerson wrote England English English Traits Englishman essay eyes Fate force French genius give Goethe heart Heimskringla Horatio Greenough horse human hundred illusion intellect John Sterling journal King labor land learned lecture limp band live London look Lord manners means mind moral nation nature never noble persons plant Plato Plutarch Poems poet poetry politics poor race RALPH WALDO EMERSON religion rich Richard of Devizes Saxon scholar secret sense Shakspeare society soul speak spirit Stonehenge talent things thou thought tion trade traits truth universe verse wealth whilst wise Wordsworth writes youth