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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... force is a positive good . It goes out from you , whether you will or not , and profits me whom you never thought of . I cannot even hear of personal vigor of any kind , great power of performance , without fresh resolution . We are ...
... force is a positive good . It goes out from you , whether you will or not , and profits me whom you never thought of . I cannot even hear of personal vigor of any kind , great power of performance , without fresh resolution . We are ...
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... 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 secret of the reader's joy in literary genius ...
... 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 secret of the reader's joy in literary genius ...
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... force . It opens the delicious sense of indeterminate size , and inspires an audacious mental habit . We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder , and a sentence in a book , or a word dropped in conversation , sets free our fancy , and ...
... force . It opens the delicious sense of indeterminate size , and inspires an audacious mental habit . We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder , and a sentence in a book , or a word dropped in conversation , sets free our fancy , and ...
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... force , into our thought , destroy- ing individualism ; the power so great , that the potentate is nothing . Then he is a monarch , who gives a constitution to his people ; a pontiff , who preaches the equality of souls , and releases ...
... force , into our thought , destroy- ing individualism ; the power so great , that the potentate is nothing . Then he is a monarch , who gives a constitution to his people ; a pontiff , who preaches the equality of souls , and releases ...
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... forces of inertia , fear , or of love itself , hold thee there . On , and forever onward ! The microscope observes a monad or wheel - insect among the infusories circu- lating in water . Presently , a dot appears on the animal , which ...
... forces of inertia , fear , or of love itself , hold thee there . On , and forever onward ! The microscope observes a monad or wheel - insect among the infusories circu- lating in water . Presently , a dot appears on the animal , which ...
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