The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 5-6Wm. H. Wise, 1903 |
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... CHARACTER 127 IX . COCKAYNE 144 X. WEALTH 153 XI . ARISTOCRACY 172 XII . UNIVERSITIES 199 XIII . RELIGION 214 XIV . LITERATURE 232 XV . THE TIMES XVI . STONEHENGE 261 273 XVII . PERSONAL 291 XVIII . RESULT 299 XIX . SPEECH AT MANCHESTER ...
... CHARACTER 127 IX . COCKAYNE 144 X. WEALTH 153 XI . ARISTOCRACY 172 XII . UNIVERSITIES 199 XIII . RELIGION 214 XIV . LITERATURE 232 XV . THE TIMES XVI . STONEHENGE 261 273 XVII . PERSONAL 291 XVIII . RESULT 299 XIX . SPEECH AT MANCHESTER ...
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... character and by the num- ber of individuals among them of personal ability . It has been denied that the English have genius . Be it as it may , men of vast intellect have been born on their soil , and they have made or applied the ...
... character and by the num- ber of individuals among them of personal ability . It has been denied that the English have genius . Be it as it may , men of vast intellect have been born on their soil , and they have made or applied the ...
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... character and employments . Race in the negro is of appalling importance . The French . in Canada , cut off from all intercourse with the parent people , have held their national traits . I chanced to read Tacitus On the Manners of the ...
... character and employments . Race in the negro is of appalling importance . The French . in Canada , cut off from all intercourse with the parent people , have held their national traits . I chanced to read Tacitus On the Manners of the ...
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... character betrays a mixed origin . Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements . The lan- guage is mixed ; the names of men are of dif- ferent nations , three languages , three or four nations ; the currents of ...
... character betrays a mixed origin . Everything English is a fusion of distant and antagonistic elements . The lan- guage is mixed ; the names of men are of dif- ferent nations , three languages , three or four nations ; the currents of ...
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... of all races . " I incline to the belief that , as water , lime and sand make mortar , so certain temperaments marry well , and , by well - managed contrarieties , develop as drastic a character as the English . On the whole RACE 51.
... of all races . " I incline to the belief that , as water , lime and sand make mortar , so certain temperaments marry well , and , by well - managed contrarieties , develop as drastic a character as the English . On the whole RACE 51.
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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