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" The sincerity and marrow of the man reaches to his sentences. I know not anywhere the book that seems less written. It is the language of conversation transferred to a book. Cut these words and they would bleed ; they are vascular and alive. "
Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With Annotations - Page 406
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911
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Language as a Means of Mental Culture and International ..., Volume 2

Claude Marcel - 1853 - 442 pages
...are not perceptible to the unthinking and the ignorant. "Blacksmiths and teamsters," says Emerson, "do not trip in their speech ; it is a shower of bullets. It is Cambridge men who correct themselves and begin again at every half sentence." * The uneducated,...
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The Christian's companion in the narrow way

666 pages
...it kindles all our generous affections, and puts life into us. — IDEM. Blacksmiths and teamsters do not trip in their speech ; it is a shower of bullets. It is Cambridge men who correct themselves, and begin again at every half sentence. — EMERSON. Society...
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Cyclopaedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and ..., Volume 2

Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 838 pages
...any unusual circumstance gives momentary importance to the dialogue. For blacksmiths and teamsters do not trip in their speech ; it is a shower of bullets. It is Cambridge men who correct themselves, and begin again at every half sentence, and, moreover,...
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Cyclopaedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and ..., Volume 2

Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 816 pages
...anywhere the book that seems less written. It is the language of conversation transferred to a book. Cut these words, and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive. One has the same pleasure in it that we have in listening to the necessary speech of men about their...
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Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Journey Into ..., Volume 4

Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt - 1859 - 580 pages
...anywhere the book that seems less written. It is the language of conversation transferred to a book. Cut these words, and they would bleed ; they are vascular and alive. . . . There have been men with deeper insight; but, one would say, never a man with such abundance...
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Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 500 pages
...anywhere the book that seems less written. It is the language of conversation transferred to a book. Cut these words and they would bleed ; they are vascular and alive. One has the same pleasure in it that we have in listening to the necessary speech of men about their...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 504 pages
...anywhere the book that seems less written. It is the language of conversation transferred to a book. Cut these words and they would bleed ; they are vascular and alive. One has the same pleasure in it that we have in listening to the necessary speech of men about their...
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The United Presbyterian Magazine

1874 - 588 pages
...— we have not to seek it. It is the word of Ufe. Emerson has said of the sentences of Montaigne : ' Cut these words, and they would bleed ; they are vascular and alive.' Similar language applied to the Bible would have little of figure. We are workers in words that carry...
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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ..., Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 512 pages
...anywhere the book that seems less written. It is the language of conversation transferred to a book. Cut these words and they would bleed ; they are vascular and alive. One has the same pleasure in it that we have in listening to the necessary speech of men about their...
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The works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 4

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 504 pages
...anywhere the book that seems less written. It is the language of conversation transferred to a book. Cut these words, and they would bleed ; they are vascular and alive. One has the same pleasure in it that we have in listening to the necessary speech of men about their...
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