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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... hundred ages . When the manners of Loo are heard of , the stupid become intelligent , and the wavering , determined . " This is the moral of biography ; yet it is hard for departed men to touch the quick like our own companions , whose ...
... hundred ages . When the manners of Loo are heard of , the stupid become intelligent , and the wavering , determined . " This is the moral of biography ; yet it is hard for departed men to touch the quick like our own companions , whose ...
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... hundred years , every brisk young man , who says in suc- cession fine things to each reluctant generation , -Boethius , Rabelais , Erasmus , Bruno , Locke , Rousseau , Alfieri , Coleridge , is some reader of Plato , translating into the ...
... hundred years , every brisk young man , who says in suc- cession fine things to each reluctant generation , -Boethius , Rabelais , Erasmus , Bruno , Locke , Rousseau , Alfieri , Coleridge , is some reader of Plato , translating into the ...
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... hundred histories , but has added no new element . This perpetual modernness is the measure of merit , in every work of art ; since the author of it was not misled by anything short - lived or local , but abode by real and abiding ...
... hundred histories , but has added no new element . This perpetual modernness is the measure of merit , in every work of art ; since the author of it was not misled by anything short - lived or local , but abode by real and abiding ...
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... it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards . The great- eyed Plato proportioned the lights and shades after the genius of our life . His PLATO : NEW READINGS . THE HE publication , in 42 REPRESENTATIVE MEN .
... it is still best that a mile should have seventeen hundred and sixty yards . The great- eyed Plato proportioned the lights and shades after the genius of our life . His PLATO : NEW READINGS . THE HE publication , in 42 REPRESENTATIVE MEN .
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... hundred years , in his pupil , is not the least remarkable fact in his his- tory . Aided , it is said , by the munificence of Mr. Clissold , and also by his literary skill , this piece of poetic justice is done . The admirable ...
... hundred years , in his pupil , is not the least remarkable fact in his his- tory . Aided , it is said , by the munificence of Mr. Clissold , and also by his literary skill , this piece of poetic justice is done . The admirable ...
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