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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... never thought of . I cannot even hear of personal vigor of any kind , great power of performance , without fresh resolution . We are emulous of all that man can do . Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh , " I know that he can toil terri ...
... never thought of . I cannot even hear of personal vigor of any kind , great power of performance , without fresh resolution . We are emulous of all that man can do . Cecil's saying of Sir Walter Raleigh , " I know that he can toil terri ...
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... never again be quite the miserable pedants we were . The high functions of the intellect are so allied , that some imaginative power usually appears in all eminent minds , even in arithmeticians of the first class , but especially in ...
... never again be quite the miserable pedants we were . The high functions of the intellect are so allied , that some imaginative power usually appears in all eminent minds , even in arithmeticians of the first class , but especially in ...
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... never spares the opium or nepenthe ; but , wherever she mars her creature with some de- formity or defect , lays her poppies plentifully on the bruise , and the sufferer goes joyfully through life , ignorant of the ruin , and incapable ...
... never spares the opium or nepenthe ; but , wherever she mars her creature with some de- formity or defect , lays her poppies plentifully on the bruise , and the sufferer goes joyfully through life , ignorant of the ruin , and incapable ...
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... never hear that man's name again . " They cry up the virtues of George Washington , " Damn George Washington ! " is the poor Jacobin's whole speech and confutation . But it is human nature's indispensable defence . The centripetence ...
... never hear that man's name again . " They cry up the virtues of George Washington , " Damn George Washington ! " is the poor Jacobin's whole speech and confutation . But it is human nature's indispensable defence . The centripetence ...
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... Never mind the taunt of Boswellism : the devotion may easily be greater than the wretched pride which is guarding its own skirts . Be another : not thyself , but a Platonist ; not a soul , but a Christian ; not a naturalist , but a ...
... Never mind the taunt of Boswellism : the devotion may easily be greater than the wretched pride which is guarding its own skirts . Be another : not thyself , but a Platonist ; not a soul , but a Christian ; not a naturalist , but a ...
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