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" ... for creation. We are always in peril, always in a bad plight, just on the edge of destruction and only to be saved by invention and courage. This vigor was guarded and tempered by the coldest prudence and punctuality. A thunderbolt in the attack,... "
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by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899
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Representative Men: Seven Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 270 pages
...prudence and punctuality. A thunderbolt in the attack, he was fouud invulnerable in his intrenchmcnts. His very attack was never the inspiration of courage,...ambition," he says, " was great, but was of a cold nature." There is a passage in one of his conversations with Las Casas : " As to moral courage, I have rarely...
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Representative Men: Seven Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 204 pages
...courage, but the result of calculation. His idea the bei& defence consists in being still the attacki party. " My ambition," he says, " was great, but was...nature." In one of his conversations with Las Casas lit remarked : " As to moral courage, I have rarely me with the two-o'clock-in-the-morning kind; I...
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The Standard Fourth Reader for Public and Private Schools: Containing a ...

Epes Sargent - 1855 - 348 pages
...prudence and punctuality. A thunderbolt in the attack, he was found invulnerable in his intrenchments. His very attack was never the inspiration of courage,...result of calculation. His idea of the best defence consisted in being still the attacking party. " My ambition," he says, " was great, but was of a cold...
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The Standard First[-fifth] Reader ...

Epes Sargent - 1857 - 320 pages
...prudence and punctuality. A thunderbolt in the attack, he was found invulnerable in his intrenchments. His very attack was never the inspiration of courage,...result of calculation His idea of the best defence consisted iu being still the attacking party. " My ambition," he says, " was great, but was of a cold...
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Representative Men: Seven Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1857 - 300 pages
...prudence and punctuality. A thunderbolt in the attack, he was found invulnerable in his intrenchments. His very attack was never the inspiration of courage,...in being still the attacking party. " My ambition," lie says, "was great, but was of a cold nature." In one of his conversations with Las Casas, he remarked,...
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The Standard Fourth Reader for Public and Private Schools: Containing a ...

Epes Sargent - 1857 - 350 pages
...prudence and punctuality. A thunderbolt in the attack, he was found invulnejabje in his intrenchments. His very attack was never the inspiration of courage,...result of calculation, His idea of the best defence consisted in being still the attacking party. " My ambition," he says, " was great, but was of a cold...
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The graduated series of reading-lesson books, Book 5

Graduated series - 1861 - 504 pages
...prudence and punctuality. A thunderbolt in the attack, he was found invulnerable in his intrenchments. His very attack was never the inspiration of courage,...result of calculation. His idea of the best defence consisted in being always the attacking party. " My ambition," he says, " was great, but was of a cold...
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The Standard Fourth Reader for Public and Private Schools: Containing a ...

Epes Sargent - 1861 - 352 pages
...courage, but the result of calculation His idea of the best defence consisted in being still the attackirg party. "My ambition," he says, " was great, but was of a cold nature^" 9. Everything depended on the nicety of his combinations ; the stars were not more punctual than his...
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The advanced reader

Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 pages
...punctuality. A thunderbolt in the attack, he was found invulnerable in his intrenchments. His very attack1 was never the inspiration of courage, but the result of calculation. His idea of the best defence 1 consisted in being always the attacking party. "My ambition," he says, "was great, but was of a cold...
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The Advanced Reader

1866 - 408 pages
...prudence and punctuality. A thunderbolt in the attack, he was found invulnerable in his intrenchments. His very attack was never the inspiration of courage,...result of calculation. His idea of the best defence consisted in being always the attacking party. " My ambition," he says, " was great, but was of a cold...
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