The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: MiscellaniesHoughton, Mifflin, 1911 |
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... and sea And make just laws below the sun , As planets faithful be . I cause from every creature His proper good to flow : As much as he is and doeth , So much he shall bestow . HISTORICAL DISCOURSE FE ELLOW CITIZENS : The town of Con-
... and sea And make just laws below the sun , As planets faithful be . I cause from every creature His proper good to flow : As much as he is and doeth , So much he shall bestow . HISTORICAL DISCOURSE FE ELLOW CITIZENS : The town of Con-
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. HISTORICAL DISCOURSE FE ELLOW CITIZENS : The town of Con- cord begins , this day , the third century of its history . By a common consent , the people of New England , for a few years past , as ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. HISTORICAL DISCOURSE FE ELLOW CITIZENS : The town of Con- cord begins , this day , the third century of its history . By a common consent , the people of New England , for a few years past , as ...
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... citizens , this first recorded political act of our fathers , this tax assessed on its inhab- itants by a town , is the most important event in their civil history , implying , as it does , the exercise of a sovereign power , and ...
... citizens , this first recorded political act of our fathers , this tax assessed on its inhab- itants by a town , is the most important event in their civil history , implying , as it does , the exercise of a sovereign power , and ...
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... citizens , is an imperfect sketch . of the history of Concord . I have been greatly indebted , in preparing this sketch , to the printed but unpublished History of this town , furnished me by the unhesitating kindness of its author ...
... citizens , is an imperfect sketch . of the history of Concord . I have been greatly indebted , in preparing this sketch , to the printed but unpublished History of this town , furnished me by the unhesitating kindness of its author ...
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... citizens ; let not the solemn shadows of two hundred years , this day , fall over us in vain . I feel some unwillingness to quit the re- membrance of the past . With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old . Every ...
... citizens ; let not the solemn shadows of two hundred years , this day , fall over us in vain . I feel some unwillingness to quit the re- membrance of the past . With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old . Every ...
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