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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... nature , and who never reminds us of others . But he must be related to us , and our life receive from him some promise of explanation . I cannot tell what I would know ; but I have observed there are persons who , in their character ...
... nature , and who never reminds us of others . But he must be related to us , and our life receive from him some promise of explanation . I cannot tell what I would know ; but I have observed there are persons who , in their character ...
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... nature , whose agent and interpreter he is , as Linnæus , of plants ; Huber , of bees ; Fries , of lichens ; Van Mons , of pears ; Dalton , of atomic forms ; Euclid , of lines ; Newton , of fluxions . : A man is a centre for nature ...
... nature , whose agent and interpreter he is , as Linnæus , of plants ; Huber , of bees ; Fries , of lichens ; Van Mons , of pears ; Dalton , of atomic forms ; Euclid , of lines ; Newton , of fluxions . : A man is a centre for nature ...
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... nature , or from being a part of that thing . Animated chlorine knows of chlorine , and incar- nate zinc , of zinc . Their quality makes his career ; and he can variously publish their virtues , because they compose him . Man , made of ...
... nature , or from being a part of that thing . Animated chlorine knows of chlorine , and incar- nate zinc , of zinc . Their quality makes his career ; and he can variously publish their virtues , because they compose him . Man , made of ...
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... nature . When nature removes a great man , people explore the horizon for a successor ; but none comes , and none will . His class is extinguished with him . In some other and quite different field , the next man will appear ; not ...
... nature . When nature removes a great man , people explore the horizon for a successor ; but none comes , and none will . His class is extinguished with him . In some other and quite different field , the next man will appear ; not ...
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... Nature abhors these com- plaisances , which threaten to melt the world into a lump , and hastens to break up such maudlin agglutinations . The like assimilation goes on between men of one town , of one sect , of one political party ...
... Nature abhors these com- plaisances , which threaten to melt the world into a lump , and hastens to break up such maudlin agglutinations . The like assimilation goes on between men of one town , of one sect , of one political party ...
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