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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Page 14
... Saxon 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 ...
... Saxon 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 ...
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... Saxon nor Ro- man have availed to add any idea to his categories . No wife , no children had he , and the thinkers of all civilized nations are his posterity , and are tinged with his mind . How many great men Nature is incessantly ...
... Saxon nor Ro- man have availed to add any idea to his categories . No wife , no children had he , and the thinkers of all civilized nations are his posterity , and are tinged with his mind . How many great men Nature is incessantly ...
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... Saxon race in him by the inspiration which feeds him , and on whose thoughts the foremost people of the world are now for some ages to be nourished , and minds to receive this and not another bias . popular player , nobody suspected he ...
... Saxon race in him by the inspiration which feeds him , and on whose thoughts the foremost people of the world are now for some ages to be nourished , and minds to receive this and not another bias . popular player , nobody suspected he ...
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... Saxons are Protestants ; that Celts love unity of power , and Saxons the representative principle . Race is a controlling influence in the Jew , who , for two mil- lenniums , under every climate , has preserved the same charac- ter and ...
... Saxons are Protestants ; that Celts love unity of power , and Saxons the representative principle . Race is a controlling influence in the Jew , who , for two mil- lenniums , under every climate , has preserved the same charac- ter and ...
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... Saxon and Tartar , should mix , when we see the rudiments of tiger and baboon in our human form , and know that the barriers of races are not so firm , but that some spray sprinkles us from the antediluvian seas . The low organizations ...
... Saxon and Tartar , should mix , when we see the rudiments of tiger and baboon in our human form , and know that the barriers of races are not so firm , but that some spray sprinkles us from the antediluvian seas . The low organizations ...
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