The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 5-6Wm. H. Wise, 1903 |
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... American artist , ' from the Tower up through Cheapside and the Strand to a house in Russell Square , whither we had been recom- mended to good chambers . For the first time for many months we were forced to check the saucy habit of ...
... American artist , ' from the Tower up through Cheapside and the Strand to a house in Russell Square , whither we had been recom- mended to good chambers . For the first time for many months we were forced to check the saucy habit of ...
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... American sculptor . ' His face was so handsome and his person so well formed that he might be pardoned , if , as was alleged , the face of his Medora and the figure of a colossal Achilles in clay , were ideal- izations of his own ...
... American sculptor . ' His face was so handsome and his person so well formed that he might be pardoned , if , as was alleged , the face of his Medora and the figure of a colossal Achilles in clay , were ideal- izations of his own ...
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... American principle . The best thing he knew of that country was that in it a man can have meat for his labor . He had read in Stewart's book that when he inquired in a New York hotel for the Boots , he had been shown across the street ...
... American principle . The best thing he knew of that country was that in it a man can have meat for his labor . He had read in Stewart's book that when he inquired in a New York hotel for the Boots , he had been shown across the street ...
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... for he wished to impress on me and all good Americans to cultivate the moral , the conservative , etc. , etc. , and never to call into action the physical strength of the - people , as had just now been done in 20 ENGLISH TRAITS.
... for he wished to impress on me and all good Americans to cultivate the moral , the conservative , etc. , etc. , and never to call into action the physical strength of the - people , as had just now been done in 20 ENGLISH TRAITS.
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... American has more reasons than another to draw him to Britain . In all that is done or begun by the Americans towards right thinking or practice , we are met by a civilization already settled and overpower- ing . The culture of the day ...
... American has more reasons than another to draw him to Britain . In all that is done or begun by the Americans towards right thinking or practice , we are met by a civilization already settled and overpower- ing . The culture of the day ...
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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