The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 5-6Wm. H. Wise, 1903 |
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... dining on roast turkey . We talked of books . Plato he does not read , and he disparaged Socrates ; and , when pressed , persisted in making Mirabeau a hero . Gibbon he called the " splendid bridge from the old world 16 ENGLISH TRAITS.
... dining on roast turkey . We talked of books . Plato he does not read , and he disparaged Socrates ; and , when pressed , persisted in making Mirabeau a hero . Gibbon he called the " splendid bridge from the old world 16 ENGLISH TRAITS.
Page 203
... Plato , of the date of A. D. 896 , brought by Dr. Clarke from Egypt ; a manuscript Virgil of the same century ; the first Bible printed at Mentz ( I believe in 1450 ) ; and a duplicate of the same , which had been deficient in about ...
... Plato , of the date of A. D. 896 , brought by Dr. Clarke from Egypt ; a manuscript Virgil of the same century ; the first Bible printed at Mentz ( I believe in 1450 ) ; and a duplicate of the same , which had been deficient in about ...
Page 238
... Plato tinges the British gen- ius . Their minds loved analogy ; were cogni- zant of resemblances , and climbers on the stair- case of unity . ' Tis a very old strife between those who elect to see identity and those who elect to see ...
... Plato tinges the British gen- ius . Their minds loved analogy ; were cogni- zant of resemblances , and climbers on the stair- case of unity . ' Tis a very old strife between those who elect to see identity and those who elect to see ...
Page 240
... profounder sort of wits drawing a bucket now and then for their own use , but the spring - head unvisited . This was the dry light which did scorch and I offend most men's watery natures . " Plato had 240 ENGLISH TRAITS.
... profounder sort of wits drawing a bucket now and then for their own use , but the spring - head unvisited . This was the dry light which did scorch and I offend most men's watery natures . " Plato had 240 ENGLISH TRAITS.
Page 241
... Plato and the Greeks . Of this kind is Lord Bacon's sentence , that " Nature is commanded by obeying her ; " his doctrine of poetry , which " accommodates the shows of things to the desires of the mind , " or the Zoroastrian definition ...
... Plato and the Greeks . Of this kind is Lord Bacon's sentence , that " Nature is commanded by obeying her ; " his doctrine of poetry , which " accommodates the shows of things to the desires of the mind , " or the Zoroastrian definition ...
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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