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" The Essays, therefore, are an entertaining soliloquy on every random topic that comes into his head ; treating everything without ceremony, yet with masculine sense. There have been men with deeper insight ; but, one would say, never a man with such abundance... "
Complete Works - Page 160
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899
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Cyclopaedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and ..., Volume 2

Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 808 pages
...are an entertaining soliloquy on every random topic that comes into lua head ; treating everything without ceremony, yet with masculine sense. There...the genius to make the reader care for all that he cores lor. ' The sincerity and marrow of the man reaches to his sentences. I know not anywhere the...
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Cyclopaedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and ..., Volume 2

Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 816 pages
...therefore, are an entertaining soliloquy on every random topic that comes into his head; treating everything without ceremony, yet with masculine sense. There have been men with deeper intight; but, one would say, never a man with such abundance of thoughts: he is never dull, never insincere,...
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Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Journey Into ..., Volume 4

Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt - 1859 - 580 pages
...conversation transferred to a book. Cut these words, and they would bleed ; they are vascular and alive. . . . There have been men with deeper insight; but, one...to make the reader care for all that he cares for." 127. Les Essais de Michel de Montaigne. Lecons in&lites recueillies par uu moiubre de 1' Academic de...
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Cyclopaedia of American literature, by E. A. and G. L ..., Volume 2; Volume 86

Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 1010 pages
...eenee. There have been men with deeper infight ; but, one would say, never a man with such nbiindance of thoughts : he is never dull, never insincere, and has the genius to make the reader cure for all that he cares for. The sincerity and marrow of the man reaches to his sentences. I know...
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Catalogue - Harvard University

Harvard University - 1880 - 256 pages
...by W. Hazlitt. With a Portrait of Montaigne. 4 vols., crown 8vo, cloth, $7.50; half calf, $15.00. " There have been men with deeper insight ; but, one...say, never a man with such abundance of thoughts." — RW EMERSON, in " Representative Men." PASCAL'S THOUGHTS, with Introductory Notices and Notes from...
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The American Bibliopolist, Volume 6

1874 - 414 pages
...essays are an entertaining soliloquy on every random topic that comes into his head; treating everything without ceremony, yet with masculine sense' There...men with deeper insight, but one would say, never man with such abundance of thoughts : he is never dull, never insincere, and has the genius to make...
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Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Journeys ..., Volume 4

Michel de Montaigne - 1875 - 586 pages
...conversation transferred to a book. Cut these words, and they would bleed ; they are vascular and alive. . . . There have been men with deeper insight ; but, one...say, never a man with such abundance of thoughts : he fa never dull, never insincere, and has the genius to make the reader care for all that he cares for."...
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The Great Slighted Fortune

John Dempster Bell - 1878 - 480 pages
...indoctrinate souls, he increases their life. And one may say of him (as he himself says of Montaigne) : " He is never dull, never insincere, and has the genius...to make the reader care for all that he cares for." Here I turn to treat the other habit referred to, — namely, creativeness. By this is meant an aptitude...
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The Great Slighted Fortune

John Dempster Bell - 1878 - 482 pages
...indoctrinate souls, he increases their life. And one may say of him (as he himself says of Montaigne) : " lie is never dull, never insincere, and has the genius...to make the reader care for all that he cares for." Here I turn to treat the other habit referred to, — namely, creativeness. By this is meant an aptitude...
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the library journal

leypoldt - 1880 - 370 pages
...etc., by W. HAZUTT. With a portrait of Montaigne. 4 vols., crown 8vo, cloth, $7.50; half calf, $15.00. There have been men with deeper insight ; but, one...to make the reader care for all that he cares for. — RW EMERSON, in Rtfresfniativt Mtn, Montaigne and HoweU's Letters are my bedside books. If I wake...
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