The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2James R. Osgood and Company, 1876 |
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... whole- some . They who lived with them found life glad and nutri- tious . Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society ; and actually , or ideally , we manage to live with su- periors . We call our children and our ...
... whole- some . They who lived with them found life glad and nutri- tious . Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society ; and actually , or ideally , we manage to live with su- periors . We call our children and our ...
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... whole secret told . Shall we say that quartz mountains will pulverize into innumerable Werners , Von Buchs , and Beaumonts ; and the laboratory of the atmosphere holds in solution I know not what Berzeliuses and Davys ? Thus , we sit by ...
... whole secret told . Shall we say that quartz mountains will pulverize into innumerable Werners , Von Buchs , and Beaumonts ; and the laboratory of the atmosphere holds in solution I know not what Berzeliuses and Davys ? Thus , we sit by ...
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... whole carriage heroic , with equal inward force to guide the great machine ! This pleasure of full ex- pression to that which , in their private experience , is usually cramped and obstructed , runs , also , much higher , and is the ...
... whole carriage heroic , with equal inward force to guide the great machine ! This pleasure of full ex- pression to that which , in their private experience , is usually cramped and obstructed , runs , also , much higher , and is the ...
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... whole populations and ages . Men resemble their contemporaries , even more than their progenitors . It is observed in old couples , or in persons who have been housemates for a course of years , that they grow alike ; and , if they ...
... whole populations and ages . Men resemble their contemporaries , even more than their progenitors . It is observed in old couples , or in persons who have been housemates for a course of years , that they grow alike ; and , if they ...
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... whole speech and confutation . But it is human nature's indispensable defence . The centripetence augments the centrifugence . We balance one man with his opposite , and the health of the state depends on the see - saw . - There is ...
... whole speech and confutation . But it is human nature's indispensable defence . The centripetence augments the centrifugence . We balance one man with his opposite , and the health of the state depends on the see - saw . - There is ...
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