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 6
... leave alone . A main difference betwixt men is , whether they attend their own affair or not . Man is that noble endogenous plant which grows , like the palm , from within outward . His own affair , though impossible to others , he can ...
... leave alone . A main difference betwixt men is , whether they attend their own affair or not . Man is that noble endogenous plant which grows , like the palm , from within outward . His own affair , though impossible to others , he can ...
Page 10
... leaves me as it found me , neither better nor worse but all mental and moral force is a positive good . It goes out ... leave to steal , as to dissemble . " We cannot read Plutarch , without a tingling of the blood ; and I accept the ...
... leaves me as it found me , neither better nor worse but all mental and moral force is a positive good . It goes out ... leave to steal , as to dissemble . " We cannot read Plutarch , without a tingling of the blood ; and I accept the ...
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... leaves with Asia the vast and su → perlative ; he is the arrival of accuracy and intelligence . " He shall be as a god to me , who can rightly divide and define . " This defining is philosophy . Philosophy is the account which the ...
... leaves with Asia the vast and su → perlative ; he is the arrival of accuracy and intelligence . " He shall be as a god to me , who can rightly divide and define . " This defining is philosophy . Philosophy is the account which the ...
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... leaving the whole party under the table , goes away , as if nothing had happened , to begin new dia- logues with somebody that is sober . In short , he was what our country - people call an old one . He affected a good many citizen ...
... leaving the whole party under the table , goes away , as if nothing had happened , to begin new dia- logues with somebody that is sober . In short , he was what our country - people call an old one . He affected a good many citizen ...
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... leaving it doubtful whether he exhibited the Republic as an allegory on the education of the private soul ; his beauti- ful definitions of ideas , of time , of form , of figure , of the line , sometimes hypothetically given , as his ...
... leaving it doubtful whether he exhibited the Republic as an allegory on the education of the private soul ; his beauti- ful definitions of ideas , of time , of form , of figure , of the line , sometimes hypothetically given , as his ...
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