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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... ENGLAND 170 III . LAND · 174 · IV . RACE V. ABILITY VI . MANNERS . VII . TRUTH . VIII . CHARACTER IX . COCKAYNE 179 194 208 215 220 228 X. WEALTH 233 · XI . ARISTOCRACY XII . UNIVERSITIES 242 255 XIII . RELIGION XIV . LITERATURE XV . THE "
... ENGLAND 170 III . LAND · 174 · IV . RACE V. ABILITY VI . MANNERS . VII . TRUTH . VIII . CHARACTER IX . COCKAYNE 179 194 208 215 220 228 X. WEALTH 233 · XI . ARISTOCRACY XII . UNIVERSITIES 242 255 XIII . RELIGION XIV . LITERATURE XV . THE "
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... truth seems to have fashioned a brain for itself . A magnet must be made man , in some Gilbert , or Swedenborg , or Oersted , before the general mind can come to entertain its powers . - - If we limit ourselves to the first advantages ...
... truth seems to have fashioned a brain for itself . A magnet must be made man , in some Gilbert , or Swedenborg , or Oersted , before the general mind can come to entertain its powers . - - If we limit ourselves to the first advantages ...
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... truth , that he could as easily have given himself leave to steal , as to dissemble . " We cannot read Plutarch , without a tingling of the blood ; and I accept the saying of the Chinese Mencius : " A sage is the instructor of a hundred ...
... truth , that he could as easily have given himself leave to steal , as to dissemble . " We cannot read Plutarch , without a tingling of the blood ; and I accept the saying of the Chinese Mencius : " A sage is the instructor of a hundred ...
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... truth and to being . " Foremost among these activities , are the sum- mersaults , spells , and resurrections wrought by the imagina- tion . When this wakes , a man seems to multiply ten times or a thousand times his force . It opens the ...
... truth and to being . " Foremost among these activities , are the sum- mersaults , spells , and resurrections wrought by the imagina- tion . When this wakes , a man seems to multiply ten times or a thousand times his force . It opens the ...
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... truths into the general 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 ...
... truths into the general 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 ...
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