The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 5-6Wm. H. Wise, 1903 |
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... youth , an author who did not need to hide from his readers , and as absolute a man of the world , unknown and exiled on that hill - farm , as if holding on his own terms what is best in London . He was tall and gaunt , with a cliff ...
... youth , an author who did not need to hide from his readers , and as absolute a man of the world , unknown and exiled on that hill - farm , as if holding on his own terms what is best in London . He was tall and gaunt , with a cliff ...
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... youth . * The mildness of the following ages has not quite effaced these traits of Odin ; as the rudi- ment of a structure matured in the tiger is said to be still found unabsorbed in the Caucasian man . The nation has a tough , acrid ...
... youth . * The mildness of the following ages has not quite effaced these traits of Odin ; as the rudi- ment of a structure matured in the tiger is said to be still found unabsorbed in the Caucasian man . The nation has a tough , acrid ...
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... youth to age , are found revolving within a few feet of each other , as if tied by some invisible ligature , tense as that cartilage which we have seen attaching the two Siamese . England produces under favorable conditions of ease and ...
... youth to age , are found revolving within a few feet of each other , as if tied by some invisible ligature , tense as that cartilage which we have seen attaching the two Siamese . England produces under favorable conditions of ease and ...
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... youth . The young men have a rude health which runs into peccant humors . They drink brandy like water , cannot expend their quantities of waste strength on riding , hunting , swimming and fencing , and run into absurd frolics with the ...
... youth . The young men have a rude health which runs into peccant humors . They drink brandy like water , cannot expend their quantities of waste strength on riding , hunting , swimming and fencing , and run into absurd frolics with the ...
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... youth poverty and wisdom , when mean gain has arrived at the conquest of letters and arts ; when English success has grown out of the very renunciation of principles , and the dedication to outsides ? A civility of trifles , of money ...
... youth poverty and wisdom , when mean gain has arrived at the conquest of letters and arts ; when English success has grown out of the very renunciation of principles , and the dedication to outsides ? A civility of trifles , of money ...
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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 society soul speak spirit Stonehenge talent things thou thought tion town trade traits truth universe verse wealth whilst wise Wordsworth writes youth