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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... trade : one , caste ; the other , culture : one , king ; the other , democ- racy : and , if we dare carry these generalizations a step higher , and name the last tendency of both , we might say , that the end of the one is escape from ...
... trade : one , caste ; the other , culture : one , king ; the other , democ- racy : and , if we dare carry these generalizations a step higher , and name the last tendency of both , we might say , that the end of the one is escape from ...
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... trade , the saloons of Versailles , the cafés of Paris , the steam - mill , steamboat , steam- coach , may all be seen in perspective ; the town - meeting , the ballot - box , the newspaper and cheap press . Meantime , Plato , in Egypt ...
... trade , the saloons of Versailles , the cafés of Paris , the steam - mill , steamboat , steam- coach , may all be seen in perspective ; the town - meeting , the ballot - box , the newspaper and cheap press . Meantime , Plato , in Egypt ...
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... trading , or planting , or speaking , or philosophizing , as in generation ; and that , though the virgins he saw in heaven were beautiful , the wives were incomparably more beautiful , and went on increasing in beauty evermore . - Yet ...
... trading , or planting , or speaking , or philosophizing , as in generation ; and that , though the virgins he saw in heaven were beautiful , the wives were incomparably more beautiful , and went on increasing in beauty evermore . - Yet ...
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... trade in our streets believes in no metaphysical causes , thinks nothing of the force which necessitated traders and a trading planet to exist ; no , but sticks to cotton , sugar , wool , and salt . The ward meetings , on election days ...
... trade in our streets believes in no metaphysical causes , thinks nothing of the force which necessitated traders and a trading planet to exist ; no , but sticks to cotton , sugar , wool , and salt . The ward meetings , on election days ...
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... trade ? It will not be pretended that a success in either of these kinds is quite coincident with what is best and inmost in his mind . Shall he , then , cutting the stays that hold him fast to the social state , put out to sea with no ...
... trade ? It will not be pretended that a success in either of these kinds is quite coincident with what is best and inmost in his mind . Shall he , then , cutting the stays that hold him fast to the social state , put out to sea with no ...
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