The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 5-6Wm. H. Wise, 1903 |
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... poor beast to one enclosure in his pen , but pig , by great strokes of judgment , had found out how to let a board . down , and had foiled him . For all that he still thought man the most plastic little fellow in the planet , and he ...
... poor beast to one enclosure in his pen , but pig , by great strokes of judgment , had found out how to let a board . down , and had foiled him . For all that he still thought man the most plastic little fellow in the planet , and he ...
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... poor men what to do . Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors . My dame makes it a rule to give to every son of Adam bread to eat , and supplies his wants to the next house . But here are thousands of acres which might give them ...
... poor men what to do . Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors . My dame makes it a rule to give to every son of Adam bread to eat , and supplies his wants to the next house . But here are thousands of acres which might give them ...
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... poor . In the northern lochs , the herring are in innumer- able shoals ; at one season , the country people say , the lakes contain one part water and two parts fish . The only drawback on this industrial conven- iency is the darkness ...
... poor . In the northern lochs , the herring are in innumer- able shoals ; at one season , the country people say , the lakes contain one part water and two parts fish . The only drawback on this industrial conven- iency is the darkness ...
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... poor Britons utterly from the world , ' proved to be the ring of mar- riage with all 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 ...
... poor Britons utterly from the world , ' proved to be the ring of mar- riage with all 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 ...
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... poor country , a poor king with many retainers could be kept alive when he leaves his own farm to collect his dues through the kingdom . These Norsemen are excellent persons in the main , with good sense , steadiness , wise speech and ...
... poor country , a poor king with many retainers could be kept alive when he leaves his own farm to collect his dues through the kingdom . These Norsemen are excellent persons in the main , with good sense , steadiness , wise speech and ...
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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