The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 5-6Wm. H. Wise, 1903 |
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... universe for the last millennium , that country is England . A wise traveller will naturally choose to visit the best of actual nations ; and an American has more reasons than another to draw him to Britain . In all that is done or ...
... universe for the last millennium , that country is England . A wise traveller will naturally choose to visit the best of actual nations ; and an American has more reasons than another to draw him to Britain . In all that is done or ...
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... a fact . Is it a machine , is it a charter , is it a boxer in the ring , is it a candidate on the hustings , the universe of Englishmen will suspend their judgment until the trial can be had . They are not to V ABILITY 81.
... a fact . Is it a machine , is it a charter , is it a boxer in the ring , is it a candidate on the hustings , the universe of Englishmen will suspend their judgment until the trial can be had . They are not to V ABILITY 81.
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... the student . His romances tend to fan these low flames . Their novelists despair of the heart . Thackeray finds that God has made no allowance for the — poor thing in his universe , more's the pity 246 ENGLISH TRAITS.
... the student . His romances tend to fan these low flames . Their novelists despair of the heart . Thackeray finds that God has made no allowance for the — poor thing in his universe , more's the pity 246 ENGLISH TRAITS.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. — poor thing in his universe , more's the pity , he thinks , but ' t is not for us to be wiser ; we must renounce ideals and accept London . ' — The brilliant Macaulay , who expresses the tone of ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. — poor thing in his universe , more's the pity , he thinks , but ' t is not for us to be wiser ; we must renounce ideals and accept London . ' — The brilliant Macaulay , who expresses the tone of ...
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... universe . The soul breathe " the representations of the images of things as a sort of air . ” Page 118 , note 1. A good instance of the Englishman's caution in " checking himself in compliments " is in the in- troduction to his ...
... universe . The soul breathe " the representations of the images of things as a sort of air . ” Page 118 , note 1. A good instance of the Englishman's caution in " checking himself in compliments " is in the in- troduction to his ...
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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