The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 2James R. Osgood and Company, 1876 |
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... WRITER ENGLISH TRAITS . I. FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND II . VOYAGE TO ENGLAND III . LAND IV . RACE V. ABILITY VI . MANNERS . VII . TRUTH . VIII . CHARACTER IX . COCKAYNE X. WEALTH XI . ARISTOCRACY XII . UNIVERSITIES PAGE 3 21 43 49 79 101 ...
... WRITER ENGLISH TRAITS . I. FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND II . VOYAGE TO ENGLAND III . LAND IV . RACE V. ABILITY VI . MANNERS . VII . TRUTH . VIII . CHARACTER IX . COCKAYNE X. WEALTH XI . ARISTOCRACY XII . UNIVERSITIES PAGE 3 21 43 49 79 101 ...
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... write , or paint , or act , by many hands : and , after some time , it is not easy to say what is the authentic work of the master , and what is only of his school . Plato , too , like every great man , consumed his own times . What is ...
... write , or paint , or act , by many hands : and , after some time , it is not easy to say what is the authentic work of the master , and what is only of his school . Plato , too , like every great man , consumed his own times . What is ...
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... write , or paint , or act , by many hands : and , after some time , it is not easy to say what is the authentic work of the master , and what is only of his school . Plato , too , like every great man , consumed his own times . What is ...
... write , or paint , or act , by many hands : and , after some time , it is not easy to say what is the authentic work of the master , and what is only of his school . Plato , too , like every great man , consumed his own times . What is ...
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... writing , at eighty - one years . But the biography of Plato is interior . We are to account for the supreme elevation of this man , in the intellectual his- tory of our race , how it happens that , in proportion to the culture of men ...
... writing , at eighty - one years . But the biography of Plato is interior . We are to account for the supreme elevation of this man , in the intellectual his- tory of our race , how it happens that , in proportion to the culture of men ...
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... write verses , and walk alone , fault of power to express their precise meaning . In a month or two , through the favor of their good genius , they meet some one so related as to assist their volcanic estate ; and , good communication ...
... write verses , and walk alone , fault of power to express their precise meaning . In a month or two , through the favor of their good genius , they meet some one so related as to assist their volcanic estate ; and , good communication ...
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