The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 5-6Wm. H. Wise, 1903 |
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... He believed that the Greeks had wrought in schools or fra- ternities , the genius of the master imparting his design to his friends and inflaming them ― with it , and when his strength was spent , FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND.
... He believed that the Greeks had wrought in schools or fra- ternities , the genius of the master imparting his design to his friends and inflaming them ― with it , and when his strength was spent , FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND.
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... genius annoyed him he professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig . He had spent much time and contrivance in confining the poor beast to one enclosure in his pen , but pig , by great strokes of judgment , had found out how ...
... genius annoyed him he professed hugely to admire the talent shown by his pig . He had spent much time and contrivance in confining the poor beast to one enclosure in his pen , but pig , by great strokes of judgment , had found out how ...
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... genius was felt . This was inevitably the 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 ...
... genius was felt . This was inevitably the 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 ...
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... genius universally accepted , it is suc- cess ; and if there be one successful country in the universe for the last millennium , that country is England . A wise traveller will naturally choose to visit the best of actual nations ; and ...
... genius universally accepted , it is suc- cess ; and if there be one successful country in the universe for the last millennium , that country is England . A wise traveller will naturally choose to visit the best of actual nations ; and ...
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... genius of the 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 ...
... genius of the 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 ...
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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