The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 5-6Wm. H. Wise, 1903 |
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... thought , and cannot apply themselves to yours . The conditions of literary success are almost destructive of the best social power , as they do not leave that frolic liberty which only can encounter a companion on the best terms . It ...
... thought , and cannot apply themselves to yours . The conditions of literary success are almost destructive of the best social power , as they do not leave that frolic liberty which only can encounter a companion on the best terms . It ...
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... thought art would never prosper until we left our shy jeal- ous ways and worked in society as they . All his thoughts breathed the same generosity . He was an accurate and a deep man . He was a votary of the Greeks , and impatient of ...
... thought art would never prosper until we left our shy jeal- ous ways and worked in society as they . All his thoughts breathed the same generosity . He was an accurate and a deep man . He was a votary of the Greeks , and impatient of ...
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... thought the only good ; and after them , Voltaire's . I could not make him praise Mackintosh , nor my more recent friends ; Montaigne very cordially , -and Charron also , which seemed undiscriminating . He thought Degerando indebted to ...
... thought the only good ; and after them , Voltaire's . I could not make him praise Mackintosh , nor my more recent friends ; Montaigne very cordially , -and Charron also , which seemed undiscriminating . He thought Degerando indebted to ...
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... thought . To judge from a single conver- sation , he made the impression of a narrow and very English mind ; of one who paid for his rare elevation by general tameness and con- formity . Off his own beat , his opinions were of no value ...
... thought . To judge from a single conver- sation , he made the impression of a narrow and very English mind ; of one who paid for his rare elevation by general tameness and con- formity . Off his own beat , his opinions were of no value ...
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... thought arises now a new system , Eng- lish sentiments , English loves and fears , English history and social modes . Yesterday every pas- senger had measured the speed of the ship by watching the bubbles over the ship's bulwarks . To ...
... thought arises now a new system , Eng- lish sentiments , English loves and fears , English history and social modes . Yesterday every pas- senger had measured the speed of the ship by watching the bubbles over the ship's bulwarks . To ...
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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