The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2James R. Osgood and Company, 1876 |
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... MANNERS . VII . TRUTH . VIII . CHARACTER IX . COCKAYNE X. WEALTH XI . ARISTOCRACY XII . UNIVERSITIES PAGE 3 21 43 49 79 101 119 • 139 159 170 • 174 179 194 208 215 220 228 233 · 242 255 XIII . RELIGION • XIV . LITERATURE XV . THE.
... MANNERS . VII . TRUTH . VIII . CHARACTER IX . COCKAYNE X. WEALTH XI . ARISTOCRACY XII . UNIVERSITIES PAGE 3 21 43 49 79 101 119 • 139 159 170 • 174 179 194 208 215 220 228 233 · 242 255 XIII . RELIGION • XIV . LITERATURE XV . THE.
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... manners of Loo are heard of , the stupid become intelligent , and the wavering , determined . " This is the moral of biography ; yet it is hard for departed men to touch the quick like our own companions , whose names may not last as ...
... manners of Loo are heard of , the stupid become intelligent , and the wavering , determined . " This is the moral of biography ; yet it is hard for departed men to touch the quick like our own companions , whose names may not last as ...
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... manners . Nobody is glad in the glad- ness of another , and our system is one of war , of an injurious superiority . Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first . It is our system ; and a man comes to measure his ...
... manners . Nobody is glad in the glad- ness of another , and our system is one of war , of an injurious superiority . Every child of the Saxon race is educated to wish to be first . It is our system ; and a man comes to measure his ...
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... manners easily become great . We are all wise in capacity , though so few in energy . There needs but one wise man in a company , and all are wise , so rapid is the contagion . Great men are thus a collyrium to clear our eyes from ego ...
... manners easily become great . We are all wise in capacity , though so few in energy . There needs but one wise man in a company , and all are wise , so rapid is the contagion . Great men are thus a collyrium to clear our eyes from ego ...
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... manners are full of desperation ; their speech is full of oaths . As soon as , with culture , things have cleared up a little , and they see them no longer in lumps and masses , but accurately distributed , they desist from that weak ...
... manners are full of desperation ; their speech is full of oaths . As soon as , with culture , things have cleared up a little , and they see them no longer in lumps and masses , but accurately distributed , they desist from that weak ...
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