The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 5-6Wm. H. Wise, 1903 |
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... Nature vindicates her rights and triumphs over the evils inflicted by the govern- ments ; the latter because art conquers nature and transforms a rude , ungenial land into a para- dise of comfort and plenty . England is a garden . Under ...
... Nature vindicates her rights and triumphs over the evils inflicted by the govern- ments ; the latter because art conquers nature and transforms a rude , ungenial land into a para- dise of comfort and plenty . England is a garden . Under ...
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... 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 bigger Birmingham . Nature held counsel with herself ...
... 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 bigger Birmingham . Nature held counsel with herself ...
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... nature has wrought . Any the least and solitariest fact in our natural history , such as the melioration of fruits and of animal stocks , has the worth of a power in the opportunity of geologic periods . Moreover , though we flatter the ...
... nature has wrought . Any the least and solitariest fact in our natural history , such as the melioration of fruits and of animal stocks , has the worth of a power in the opportunity of geologic periods . Moreover , though we flatter the ...
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... nature . These men have written the game - books of all countries , as Hawker , Scrope , Murray , Herbert , Maxwell , Cumming and a host of travellers . The people at home are addicted to boxing , running , leaping and rowing matches ...
... nature . These men have written the game - books of all countries , as Hawker , Scrope , Murray , Herbert , Maxwell , Cumming and a host of travellers . The people at home are addicted to boxing , running , leaping and rowing matches ...
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... nature of man : and , if he do aught beyond this , by breaking out into divers sorts of exterior actions , he findeth , nevertheless , in this linked sequel of simple discourses , the art , the cause , the rule , the bounds and the ...
... nature of man : and , if he do aught beyond this , by breaking out into divers sorts of exterior actions , he findeth , nevertheless , in this linked sequel of simple discourses , the art , the cause , the rule , the bounds and the ...
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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