The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 5-6Wm. H. Wise, 1903 |
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... sterling are said to compose the floating money of commerce . In 1848 , Lord John Russell stated that the people of this country had laid out £ 300,000,000 of capital in railways , in the last four years . But a better measure than ...
... sterling are said to compose the floating money of commerce . In 1848 , Lord John Russell stated that the people of this country had laid out £ 300,000,000 of capital in railways , in the last four years . But a better measure than ...
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... Sterling , Bacon , Barnes , Alsiger , Horace Twiss , Jones Lloyd , John Oxenford , Mr. Mosely , Mr. Bailey , have contributed to its renown in their special depart- ments . ' But it has never wanted the first pens for occasional ...
... Sterling , Bacon , Barnes , Alsiger , Horace Twiss , Jones Lloyd , John Oxenford , Mr. Mosely , Mr. Bailey , have contributed to its renown in their special depart- ments . ' But it has never wanted the first pens for occasional ...
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... John Sterling in a letter to Emerson in 1841,2 says : " In my boyhood , twenty years ago , I well remember that , with quite insignificant exceptions , all the active and daring minds which would not take for granted the Thirty - nine ...
... John Sterling in a letter to Emerson in 1841,2 says : " In my boyhood , twenty years ago , I well remember that , with quite insignificant exceptions , all the active and daring minds which would not take for granted the Thirty - nine ...
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... John Collins Warren said of him in his boyhood , " he had no stamina , " wrote thus to his friend Sterling in 1844 : " I do not know how it happens , but there are but seven hours , often but five , in an American scholar's day ; the ...
... John Collins Warren said of him in his boyhood , " he had no stamina , " wrote thus to his friend Sterling in 1844 : " I do not know how it happens , but there are but seven hours , often but five , in an American scholar's day ; the ...
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... John Sterling , in a letter written to Mr. Emerson in 1841 , speculates as to what kind of audiences he finds in America audiences that must be different from those in England . He says : " Here we have not only the same aggressive ...
... John Sterling , in a letter written to Mr. Emerson in 1841 , speculates as to what kind of audiences he finds in America audiences that must be different from those in England . He says : " Here we have not only the same aggressive ...
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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