The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 5-6Wm. H. Wise, 1903 |
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... political economy ; for , in any town there , it only needed to ask what the government enacted , and reverse that , to know what ought to be done ; it was the most felicitously opposite legislation to anything good and wise . There ...
... political economy ; for , in any town there , it only needed to ask what the government enacted , and reverse that , to know what ought to be done ; it was the most felicitously opposite legislation to anything good and wise . There ...
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... politics ; that they make polit- ical distinction the end and not the means . And I fear they lack a class of men of ... political aspects , for he wished to impress on me and all good Americans to cultivate the moral , the ...
... politics ; that they make polit- ical distinction the end and not the means . And I fear they lack a class of men of ... political aspects , for he wished to impress on me and all good Americans to cultivate the moral , the ...
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... political constructions , easily changed or destroyed . But this writer did not found his assumed races on any necessary law , disclosing their ideal or metaphysical necessity ; nor did he on the other hand count with pre- cision the ...
... political constructions , easily changed or destroyed . But this writer did not found his assumed races on any necessary law , disclosing their ideal or metaphysical necessity ; nor did he on the other hand count with pre- cision the ...
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... politics or for business ; strikes ; and sense of superiority founded on habit of victory in labor and in war : and the appetite for superiority grows by feeding . I It is easy to add to the counteracting forces to race . Credence is a ...
... politics or for business ; strikes ; and sense of superiority founded on habit of victory in labor and in war : and the appetite for superiority grows by feeding . I It is easy to add to the counteracting forces to race . Credence is a ...
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... political dependence , small tenantry and an inferior or misplaced race . These queries concerning ancestry and blood may be well allowed , for there is no prosperity that seems more to depend on the kind of man than British prosperity ...
... political dependence , small tenantry and an inferior or misplaced race . These queries concerning ancestry and blood may be well allowed , for there is no prosperity that seems more to depend on the kind of man than British prosperity ...
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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