The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In 2 Volumes. [Inhalt. Vol. I: Miscellanies. - Essays. Vol. II: Representative Men. - English Traits. - Conduct of Life.]. II, Volume 2Fields, Osgood, & Company, 1870 |
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... America got its chart from Columbus . Every novel is a debtor to Homer . Every · carpenter who shaves with a foreplane borrows the genius of a forgotten inventor . Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences , the contributions of ...
... America got its chart from Columbus . Every novel is a debtor to Homer . Every · carpenter who shaves with a foreplane borrows the genius of a forgotten inventor . Life is girt all round with a zodiac of sciences , the contributions of ...
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... American genius . His broad humanity transcends all sectional lines . ― - ― This range of Plato instructs us what to think of the vexed question concerning his reputed works , what are genuine , what spurious . It is singular that ...
... American genius . His broad humanity transcends all sectional lines . ― - ― This range of Plato instructs us what to think of the vexed question concerning his reputed works , what are genuine , what spurious . It is singular that ...
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... American nations , so the writings of Plato have preoccupied every school of learning , every lover of thought , every church , every poet , -making it impossible to think , on certain levels , except through him . He stands between the ...
... American nations , so the writings of Plato have preoccupied every school of learning , every lover of thought , every church , every poet , -making it impossible to think , on certain levels , except through him . He stands between the ...
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... America : he drew the man , and described the day , and what is done in it ; he read the hearts of men and women , their probity , and their second thought , and wiles ; the wiles of innocence , and the transitions by which virtues and ...
... America : he drew the man , and described the day , and what is done in it ; he read the hearts of men and women , their probity , and their second thought , and wiles ; the wiles of innocence , and the transitions by which virtues and ...
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... America , in England , in France , and throughout Europe ; the class of industry and skill . Na- poleon is its representative . The instinct of active , brave , VOL . II . 6 able men , throughout the middle class everywhere , has.
... America , in England , in France , and throughout Europe ; the class of industry and skill . Na- poleon is its representative . The instinct of active , brave , VOL . II . 6 able men , throughout the middle class everywhere , has.
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