The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 5-6Wm. H. Wise, 1903 |
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... nation that are unforgetable . ' From London , on the 5th August , I went to Highgate , and wrote a note to Mr. Coleridge , requesting leave to pay my respects to him . ' It was near noon . Mr. Coleridge sent a verbal message that he ...
... nation that are unforgetable . ' From London , on the 5th August , I went to Highgate , and wrote a note to Mr. Coleridge , requesting leave to pay my respects to him . ' It was near noon . Mr. Coleridge sent a verbal message that he ...
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... nations ? If there be one test of national genius universally accepted , it is suc- cess ; and if there be one ... nation considerable for a thousand years since Egbert , it has , in the last centuries , obtained the ascendent ...
... nations ? If there be one test of national genius universally accepted , it is suc- cess ; and if there be one ... nation considerable for a thousand years since Egbert , it has , in the last centuries , obtained the ascendent ...
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... nation , to use a shop word , has a good stand . The old Venetians pleased themselves with the flattery that Venice was in 45 ° , midway between the poles and the line ; as if that were an imperial centrality . Long of old , the Greeks ...
... nation , to use a shop word , has a good stand . The old Venetians pleased themselves with the flattery that Venice was in 45 ° , midway between the poles and the line ; as if that were an imperial centrality . Long of old , the Greeks ...
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... nations . It is not down in the books , it is written only in the geologic strata , that fortunate day when a wave of the Ger- man Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France , and gave to this fragment of ...
... nations . It is not down in the books , it is written only in the geologic strata , that fortunate day when a wave of the Ger- man Ocean burst the old isthmus which joined Kent and Cornwall to France , and gave to this fragment of ...
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... nation conveniently small . Fontenelle thought that nature had sometimes a little affectation ; and there is such an artificial completeness in this nation of arti- ficers as if there were a design from the begin- ning to elaborate a ...
... nation conveniently small . Fontenelle thought that nature had sometimes a little affectation ; and there is such an artificial completeness in this nation of arti- ficers as if there were a design from the begin- ning to elaborate a ...
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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