The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2James R. Osgood and Company, 1876 |
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... . POWER 315 341 · III . WEALTH 359 IV . CULTURE 383 V. BEHAVIOR 403 VI . WORSHIP 421 VII . CONSIDERATIONS BY THE WAY 445 VIII . BEAUTY 465 · • IX . ILLUSIONS 481 REPRESENTATIVE MEN . VOL . II . 1 I. USES iv CONTENTS .
... . POWER 315 341 · III . WEALTH 359 IV . CULTURE 383 V. BEHAVIOR 403 VI . WORSHIP 421 VII . CONSIDERATIONS BY THE WAY 445 VIII . BEAUTY 465 · • IX . ILLUSIONS 481 REPRESENTATIVE MEN . VOL . II . 1 I. USES iv CONTENTS .
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... beauty in many ways and places . Is this fancy ? Well , in good faith , we are multiplied by our proxies . How easily we adopt their labors ! Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus . Every novel is a debtor to ...
... beauty in many ways and places . Is this fancy ? Well , in good faith , we are multiplied by our proxies . How easily we adopt their labors ! Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus . Every novel is a debtor to ...
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... beauty of the body ; there is the like pleasure , and a higher benefit , from witnessing intellectual feats of all kinds ; as , feats of memory , of mathematical combination , great power of abstraction , the transmutings of the imagina ...
... beauty of the body ; there is the like pleasure , and a higher benefit , from witnessing intellectual feats of all kinds ; as , feats of memory , of mathematical combination , great power of abstraction , the transmutings of the imagina ...
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... beauty , and words of good . " How to illustrate the distinctive benefit of ideas , the service rendered by those who introduce moral truths into the general mind ? I am plagued , in all my living , with a perpetual tariff of prices ...
... beauty , and words of good . " How to illustrate the distinctive benefit of ideas , the service rendered by those who introduce moral truths into the general mind ? I am plagued , in all my living , with a perpetual tariff of prices ...
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... . We rightly speak of the guardian angels of children . How superior in their security from infusions of evil persons , from vulgarity and second B thought ! They shed their own abundant beauty on the USES OF GREAT MEN . 17.
... . We rightly speak of the guardian angels of children . How superior in their security from infusions of evil persons , from vulgarity and second B thought ! They shed their own abundant beauty on the USES OF GREAT MEN . 17.
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