The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2James R. Osgood and Company, 1876 |
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... RACE V. ABILITY VI . 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 ...
... RACE V. ABILITY VI . 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 ...
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... race goes with us on their credit . The knowledge that in the city is a man who invented the railroad , raises the cred- it of all the citizens . But enormous populations , if they be beggars , are disgusting , like moving cheese , like ...
... race goes with us on their credit . The knowledge that in the city is a man who invented the railroad , raises the cred- it of all the citizens . But enormous populations , if they be beggars , are disgusting , like moving cheese , like ...
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... races . We are enti- tled , also , to higher advantages . Something is wanting to science , until it has been humanized . The table of logarithms . is one thing , and its vital play in botany , music , optics , and architecture ...
... races . We are enti- tled , also , to higher advantages . Something is wanting to science , until it has been humanized . The table of logarithms . is one thing , and its vital play in botany , music , optics , and architecture ...
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... race is educated to wish to be first . It is our system ; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets , envies , and hatreds of his com- petitors . But in these new fields there is room : here are no self - esteems , no ...
... race is educated to wish to be first . It is our system ; and a man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets , envies , and hatreds of his com- petitors . But in these new fields there is room : here are no self - esteems , no ...
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... his- tory of our race , how it happens that , in proportion to the culture of men they become his scholars ; that , as our Jewish VOL . II . 2 Bible has implanted itself in the table - talk and PLATO ; OR , THE PHILOSOPHER . 25.
... his- tory of our race , how it happens that , in proportion to the culture of men they become his scholars ; that , as our Jewish VOL . II . 2 Bible has implanted itself in the table - talk and PLATO ; OR , THE PHILOSOPHER . 25.
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