The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 5-6Wm. H. Wise, 1903 |
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Page 45
... intellect have been born on their soil , and they have made or applied the principal inventions . They have sound bodies and supreme endurance in war and in labor . The spawning force of the race has sufficed to the colonization of ...
... intellect have been born on their soil , and they have made or applied the principal inventions . They have sound bodies and supreme endurance in war and in labor . The spawning force of the race has sufficed to the colonization of ...
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... three or four nations ; the currents of thought are coun- ter : contemplation and practical skill ; active intellect and dead conservatism ; world - wide - enterprise and devoted use and wont ; aggres- sive freedom 50 ENGLISH TRAITS.
... three or four nations ; the currents of thought are coun- ter : contemplation and practical skill ; active intellect and dead conservatism ; world - wide - enterprise and devoted use and wont ; aggres- sive freedom 50 ENGLISH TRAITS.
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... intellect and personal force should make the law ; that indus- try and administrative talent should administer ; that work should wear the crown . I know that not this , but something else is pretended . The fiction with which the noble ...
... intellect and personal force should make the law ; that indus- try and administrative talent should administer ; that work should wear the crown . I know that not this , but something else is pretended . The fiction with which the noble ...
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... intellect . It is not less seen in poetry . Chaucer's hard painting of his Canterbury pilgrims satisfies the senses . Shakspeare , Spenser and Milton , in their loftiest ascents , have this national grip and exactitude of mind . This ...
... intellect . It is not less seen in poetry . Chaucer's hard painting of his Canterbury pilgrims satisfies the senses . Shakspeare , Spenser and Milton , in their loftiest ascents , have this national grip and exactitude of mind . This ...
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... intellect of famed races became effete . So it fared with English genius . These heights were followed by a meanness and a descent of the mind into lower levels ; the loss of wings ; no high speculation . Locke , to whom the meaning of ...
... intellect of famed races became effete . So it fared with English genius . These heights were followed by a meanness and a descent of the mind into lower levels ; the loss of wings ; no high speculation . Locke , to whom the meaning of ...
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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