The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 5-6Wm. H. Wise, 1903 |
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... British side . In every man's thought arises now a new system , Eng- lish sentiments , English loves and fears , English history and social modes . Yesterday every pas- senger had measured the speed of the ship by watching the bubbles ...
... British side . In every man's thought arises now a new system , Eng- lish sentiments , English loves and fears , English history and social modes . Yesterday every pas- senger had measured the speed of the ship by watching the bubbles ...
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... British mind . The in- fluence of France is a constituent of modern civility , but not enough opposed to the English for the most wholesome effect . The American is only the continuation of the English genius into new conditions , more ...
... British mind . The in- fluence of France is a constituent of modern civility , but not enough opposed to the English for the most wholesome effect . The American is only the continuation of the English genius into new conditions , more ...
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... British power has culminated , is in solstice , or already declining . ' As soon as you enter England , which , with Wales , is no larger than the State of Georgia , 2 this little land stretches by an illusion to the dimensions of an ...
... British power has culminated , is in solstice , or already declining . ' As soon as you enter England , which , with Wales , is no larger than the State of Georgia , 2 this little land stretches by an illusion to the dimensions of an ...
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... British Empire is reckoned to contain ( in 1848 ) 222,000,000 souls , perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe ; and to comprise a territory of 5,000,000 square miles . So far I have British people predominated . Perhaps forty of ...
... British Empire is reckoned to contain ( in 1848 ) 222,000,000 souls , perhaps a fifth of the population of the globe ; and to comprise a territory of 5,000,000 square miles . So far I have British people predominated . Perhaps forty of ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. have British people predominated . Perhaps forty of these millions are of British stock . Add the United States of America , which reckon ( in the same year ) , exclusive of slaves , 20,000,000 ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. have British people predominated . Perhaps forty of these millions are of British stock . Add the United States of America , which reckon ( in the same year ) , exclusive of slaves , 20,000,000 ...
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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