The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 5-6Wm. H. Wise, 1903 |
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... look at it again . Carlyle he said wrote most obscurely . He was clever and deep , but he defied the sympathies of every body . Even Mr. Coleridge wrote more clearly , though he had always wished Coleridge would write more to be FIRST ...
... look at it again . Carlyle he said wrote most obscurely . He was clever and deep , but he defied the sympathies of every body . Even Mr. Coleridge wrote more clearly , though he had always wished Coleridge would write more to be FIRST ...
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... looks into a port . Then that wonderful esprit du corps by which we adopt into our self - love every thing we touch , makes us all champions of her sailing qualities . The conscious ship hears all the praise . In one week she has made ...
... looks into a port . Then that wonderful esprit du corps by which we adopt into our self - love every thing we touch , makes us all champions of her sailing qualities . The conscious ship hears all the praise . In one week she has made ...
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... Look , what egg - shells are drifting all over it , each one , like ours , filled with men in ecstasies of terror , alternating with cockney conceit , as the sea is rough or smooth . Is this sad - colored circle an eternal cemetery ? In ...
... Look , what egg - shells are drifting all over it , each one , like ours , filled with men in ecstasies of terror , alternating with cockney conceit , as the sea is rough or smooth . Is this sad - colored circle an eternal cemetery ? In ...
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... , and sometimes justifies the epigram on the climate by an English wit , “ in a fine day , looking up a chimney ; in a foul day , look- ing down one . " A gentleman in Liverpool told me that he found he could do without a fire LAND 39.
... , and sometimes justifies the epigram on the climate by an English wit , “ in a fine day , looking up a chimney ; in a foul day , look- ing down one . " A gentleman in Liverpool told me that he found he could do without a fire LAND 39.
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... same place in its con- gener ; and we look to find in the son every mental and moral property that existed in the ancestor . In race , it is not the broad shoulders , or litheness , or stature that give advantage , but 46 ENGLISH TRAITS.
... same place in its con- gener ; and we look to find in the son every mental and moral property that existed in the ancestor . In race , it is not the broad shoulders , or litheness , or stature that give advantage , but 46 ENGLISH TRAITS.
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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