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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... virtues , because they compose him . Man , made of the dust of the world , does not forget his origin ; and all that is yet inanimate will one day speak and reason . Unpublished nature will have its whole secret told . Shall we say that ...
... virtues , because they compose him . Man , made of the dust of the world , does not forget his origin ; and all that is yet inanimate will one day speak and reason . Unpublished nature will have its whole secret told . Shall we say that ...
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... virtues , not only in heroes and archangels , but in gossips and nurses . Is it not a rare contrivance that lodged the due inertia in every creature , the conserving , resisting energy , the anger at being waked or changed ? Altogether ...
... virtues , not only in heroes and archangels , but in gossips and nurses . Is it not a rare contrivance that lodged the due inertia in every creature , the conserving , resisting energy , the anger at being waked or changed ? Altogether ...
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... 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 augments the centrifugence . We balance one man with his ...
... 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 augments the centrifugence . We balance one man with his ...
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... virtue ? The thoughtful youth laments the superfotation of nature . ' Gen- erous and handsome , ' he says , ' is your hero ; but look at yon- der poor Paddy , whose country is his wheelbarrow ; look at his whole nation of Paddies ...
... virtue ? The thoughtful youth laments the superfotation of nature . ' Gen- erous and handsome , ' he says , ' is your hero ; but look at yon- der poor Paddy , whose country is his wheelbarrow ; look at his whole nation of Paddies ...
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... virtue , is good for knowledge . Hence his con- temporaries tax him with plagiarism . But the inventor only knows how to borrow ; and society is glad to forget the in- numerable laborers who ministered to this architect , and re- serves ...
... virtue , is good for knowledge . Hence his con- temporaries tax him with plagiarism . But the inventor only knows how to borrow ; and society is glad to forget the in- numerable laborers who ministered to this architect , and re- serves ...
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