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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... politics . But this comes later . We speak now only of our acquaint- ance with them in their own sphere , and the way in which they seem to fascinate and draw to them some genius who oc- cupies himself with one thing , all his life long ...
... politics . But this comes later . We speak now only of our acquaint- ance with them in their own sphere , and the way in which they seem to fascinate and draw to them some genius who oc- cupies himself with one thing , all his life long ...
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... politics . Give us the cipher , and , if persons and things are scores of a celestial music , let us read off the strains . have been cheated of our reason ; yet there have been sane men , who enjoyed a rich and related existence . What ...
... politics . Give us the cipher , and , if persons and things are scores of a celestial music , let us read off the strains . have been cheated of our reason ; yet there have been sane men , who enjoyed a rich and related existence . What ...
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... political party ; and the ideas of the time are in the air , and infect all who breathe it . Viewed from any high point , this city of New York , yonder city of London , the Western civilization , would seem a bundle of insanities . We ...
... political party ; and the ideas of the time are in the air , and infect all who breathe it . Viewed from any high point , this city of New York , yonder city of London , the Western civilization , would seem a bundle of insanities . We ...
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... political economy ; no ominous Malthus ; no Paris or London ; no pitiless sub- division of classes , the doom of the pin - makers , the doom of the weavers , of dressers , of stockingers , of carders , of spin- ners , of colliers ; no ...
... political economy ; no ominous Malthus ; no Paris or London ; no pitiless sub- division of classes , the doom of the pin - makers , the doom of the weavers , of dressers , of stockingers , of carders , of spin- ners , of colliers ; no ...
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... political sense . Behmen , and all mys- tics , imply this law , in their dark riddle - writing . The poets , in as far as they are poets , use it ; but it is known to them only , as the magnet was known for ages , as a toy . Sweden ...
... political sense . Behmen , and all mys- tics , imply this law , in their dark riddle - writing . The poets , in as far as they are poets , use it ; but it is known to them only , as the magnet was known for ages , as a toy . Sweden ...
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