The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 5-6Wm. H. Wise, 1903 |
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... learned German , by the advice of a man who told him he would find in that language what he wanted . He took despairing or satirical views of liter- ature at this moment ; recounted the incredible sums paid in one year by the great ...
... learned German , by the advice of a man who told him he would find in that language what he wanted . He took despairing or satirical views of liter- ature at this moment ; recounted the incredible sums paid in one year by the great ...
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... Sand were our sea - gods . Among the pas- sengers there was some variety of talent and pro- fession ; we exchanged our experiences and all learned something . The busiest talk with lei- sure and VOYAGE TO ENGLAND 31.
... Sand were our sea - gods . Among the pas- sengers there was some variety of talent and pro- fession ; we exchanged our experiences and all learned something . The busiest talk with lei- sure and VOYAGE TO ENGLAND 31.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. learned something . The busiest talk with lei- sure and convenience at sea , and sometimes a memorable fact turns up , which you have long had a vacant niche for , and seize with the joy of a ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. learned something . The busiest talk with lei- sure and convenience at sea , and sometimes a memorable fact turns up , which you have long had a vacant niche for , and seize with the joy of a ...
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... learned the Romance or bar- barous Latin of the Gauls , and had acquired , with the language , all the vices it had names for . The conquest has obtained in the chronicles the name of the " memory of sorrow . " Twenty thousand thieves ...
... learned the Romance or bar- barous Latin of the Gauls , and had acquired , with the language , all the vices it had names for . The conquest has obtained in the chronicles the name of the " memory of sorrow . " Twenty thousand thieves ...
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... learned only by prac- tice , in which allowance for friction is made . They are impious in their skepticism of theory , and in high departments they are cramped and sterile . But the unconditional surrender to facts , and the choice of ...
... learned only by prac- tice , in which allowance for friction is made . They are impious in their skepticism of theory , and in high departments they are cramped and sterile . But the unconditional surrender to facts , and the choice 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