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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... mind . The student of history is like a man going into a warehouse to buy cloths or carpets . He fancies he has a new article . If he go to the factory , he shall find that his new stuff still repeats the scrolls and rosettes which are ...
... mind . The student of history is like a man going into a warehouse to buy cloths or carpets . He fancies he has a new article . If he go to the factory , he shall find that his new stuff still repeats the scrolls and rosettes which are ...
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... mind . Little minds are little , through failure to see them . - Our delight in reason Especially when a Even these feasts have their surfeit . degenerates into idolatry of the herald . mind of powerful method has instructed men , we ...
... mind . Little minds are little , through failure to see them . - Our delight in reason Especially when a Even these feasts have their surfeit . degenerates into idolatry of the herald . mind of powerful method has instructed men , we ...
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... mind ? —I am plagued , in all my living , with a perpetual tariff of prices . If I work in my garden and prune an apple- tree , I am well enough entertained , and could continue in- definitely in the like occupation . But it comes to mind ...
... mind ? —I am plagued , in all my living , with a perpetual tariff of prices . If I work in my garden and prune an apple- tree , I am well enough entertained , and could continue in- definitely in the like occupation . But it comes to mind ...
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... mind it , and get a self - reliance ; and if we indulge them to folly , they learn the limitation elsewhere . We need not fear excessive influence . A more generous trust is permitted . Serve the great . Stick at no humiliation . Grudge ...
... mind it , and get a self - reliance ; and if we indulge them to folly , they learn the limitation elsewhere . We need not fear excessive influence . A more generous trust is permitted . Serve the great . Stick at no humiliation . Grudge ...
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... minds appears intimate what gets admission to one , cannot be kept out of any other : the small- est acquisition of ... mind and will . The opaque self becomes transparent with the light of the First Cause . Yet , within the limits of ...
... minds appears intimate what gets admission to one , cannot be kept out of any other : the small- est acquisition of ... mind and will . The opaque self becomes transparent with the light of the First Cause . Yet , within the limits of ...
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