The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: MiscellaniesHoughton, Mifflin, 1911 |
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Page 25
... exist . And whilst the recollection of its claims oppresses me with a sense of my unworthiness , I am consoled by the hope that no time and no change can deprive me of the satisfaction of pursuing and exercising its high- est functions ...
... exist . And whilst the recollection of its claims oppresses me with a sense of my unworthiness , I am consoled by the hope that no time and no change can deprive me of the satisfaction of pursuing and exercising its high- est functions ...
Page 94
... exists in a great part of the Northern people a gloomy diffidence in the moral charac- ter of the government . On the broaching of this question , a general expression of despondency , of disbelief that any good will accrue from a ...
... exists in a great part of the Northern people a gloomy diffidence in the moral charac- ter of the government . On the broaching of this question , a general expression of despondency , of disbelief that any good will accrue from a ...
Page 121
... exists . It may be asserted , without fear of denial , that the former slaves of Jamaica are now as secure in all social rights , as freeborn Britons . " He further describes the erection of numerous churches , chapels and schools which ...
... exists . It may be asserted , without fear of denial , that the former slaves of Jamaica are now as secure in all social rights , as freeborn Britons . " He further describes the erection of numerous churches , chapels and schools which ...
Page 128
... exists ; the planters are not , excepting in rare examples , members of the legis- lature . The extent of the empire , and the mag- nitude and number of other questions crowding into court , keep this one in balance , and prevent it ...
... exists ; the planters are not , excepting in rare examples , members of the legis- lature . The extent of the empire , and the mag- nitude and number of other questions crowding into court , keep this one in balance , and prevent it ...
Page 134
... their pri- mary capacity take up their cause on this very ground , and say to the government of the State , and of the Union , that government exists to -- defend the weak and the poor and the injured party 134 WEST INDIA EMANCIPATION.
... their pri- mary capacity take up their cause on this very ground , and say to the government of the State , and of the Union , that government exists to -- defend the weak and the poor and the injured party 134 WEST INDIA EMANCIPATION.
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