The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: MiscellaniesHoughton, Mifflin, 1911 |
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Page 20
... courses , a moving provocation to works like . his , any act or meeting which tends to awaken . a pure thought , a flow of love , an original de- sign of virtue , I call a worthy , a true commemo- ration . 4. The importance ascribed to ...
... courses , a moving provocation to works like . his , any act or meeting which tends to awaken . a pure thought , a flow of love , an original de- sign of virtue , I call a worthy , a true commemo- ration . 4. The importance ascribed to ...
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... course of two years and a half . Hindered from speaking , some of these dared to print the reasons of their dis- sent , and were punished with imprisonment or mutilation . ' This severity brought some of the best men in England to ...
... course of two years and a half . Hindered from speaking , some of these dared to print the reasons of their dis- sent , and were punished with imprisonment or mutilation . ' This severity brought some of the best men in England to ...
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... course of events , Concord and the other plantations found themselves separate and independent of Boston , with certain rights of their own , which , what they were , time alone could fully determine ; enjoying , at the same time , a ...
... course of events , Concord and the other plantations found themselves separate and independent of Boston , with certain rights of their own , which , what they were , time alone could fully determine ; enjoying , at the same time , a ...
Page 52
... courses which the English were taking for their good ; for , said he , all the time you have lived after the Indian fashion , under the power of the higher sachems , what did they care for you ? They took away your skins , your kettles ...
... courses which the English were taking for their good ; for , said he , all the time you have lived after the Indian fashion , under the power of the higher sachems , what did they care for you ? They took away your skins , your kettles ...
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... course of the war the town did not depart from this pledge it had given . Its little population of 1300 souls behaved like a party to the contest . The number of its troops constantly in service is very great . Its pecuniary burdens are ...
... course of the war the town did not depart from this pledge it had given . Its little population of 1300 souls behaved like a party to the contest . The number of its troops constantly in service is very great . Its pecuniary burdens are ...
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