The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2James R. Osgood and Company, 1876 |
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... kind ; that is , he seeks other men , and the otherest . The stronger the nature , the more it is reactive . Let us have the quality pure . A little genius let us leave alone . A main difference betwixt men is , whether they attend ...
... kind ; that is , he seeks other men , and the otherest . The stronger the nature , the more it is reactive . Let us have the quality pure . A little genius let us leave alone . A main difference betwixt men is , whether they attend ...
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... kind ; that is , he seeks other men , and the otherest . The stronger the nature , the more it is reactive . Let us have the quality pure . A little genius let us leave alone . A main difference betwixt men is , whether they attend ...
... kind ; that is , he seeks other men , and the otherest . The stronger the nature , the more it is reactive . Let us have the quality pure . A little genius let us leave alone . A main difference betwixt men is , whether they attend ...
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... kind , great power of performance , without fresh resolution . We are emulous of all that man can do . Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh , " I know that he can toil terri- bly , " is an electric touch . So are Clarendon's portraits ...
... kind , great power of performance , without fresh resolution . We are emulous of all that man can do . Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh , " I know that he can toil terri- bly , " is an electric touch . So are Clarendon's portraits ...
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... kind of metre of the mind . Little minds are little , through failure to see them . - Our delight in reason Especially when a Even these feasts have their surfeit . degenerates into idolatry of the herald . mind of powerful method has ...
... kind of metre of the mind . Little minds are little , through failure to see them . - Our delight in reason Especially when a Even these feasts have their surfeit . degenerates into idolatry of the herald . mind of powerful method has ...
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... kind of envy . Exempt from envy , he wished that all things should be as much as possible like himself . Whosoever , taught by wise men , shall admit this as the prime cause of the origin and foundation of the world , will be in the ...
... kind of envy . Exempt from envy , he wished that all things should be as much as possible like himself . Whosoever , taught by wise men , shall admit this as the prime cause of the origin and foundation of the world , will be in the ...
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