The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In 2 Volumes. [Inhalt. Vol. I: Miscellanies. - Essays. Vol. II: Representative Men. - English Traits. - Conduct of Life.]. I, Volume 1Fields, Osgood, & Company, 1870 |
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Page 15
... reforms itself in the mind , and not for barren contemplation , but for new creation . All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world ; some men even to delight . This love of beauty is Taste . Others have the same love ...
... reforms itself in the mind , and not for barren contemplation , but for new creation . All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world ; some men even to delight . This love of beauty is Taste . Others have the same love ...
Page 116
... reforms whose fame now fills the land with Temperance , Antislavery , Non - Resistance , No Gov- ernment , Equal Labor , fair and generous as each appears , are poor bitter things when prosecuted for themselves as an end . To every reform ...
... reforms whose fame now fills the land with Temperance , Antislavery , Non - Resistance , No Gov- ernment , Equal Labor , fair and generous as each appears , are poor bitter things when prosecuted for themselves as an end . To every reform ...
Page 125
... the world the doctrine of Reform had nev- er such scope as at the present hour . Lutherans , Hernhut- ters , Jesuits , Monks , Quakers , Knox , Wesley , Swedenborg , Bentham , in their accusations of society , all respected.
... the world the doctrine of Reform had nev- er such scope as at the present hour . Lutherans , Hernhut- ters , Jesuits , Monks , Quakers , Knox , Wesley , Swedenborg , Bentham , in their accusations of society , all respected.
Page 126
... reform has a secret door into the heart of every lawmaker , of every inhabitant of every city . The fact that a new thought and hope have dawned in your breast , should apprise you that in the same hour a new light broke in upon a ...
... reform has a secret door into the heart of every lawmaker , of every inhabitant of every city . The fact that a new thought and hope have dawned in your breast , should apprise you that in the same hour a new light broke in upon a ...
Page 129
... reform in all these institutions , their abuses will be redressed , and the way will be open again to the advantages which arise from the division of labor , and a man may select the fittest employment for his peculiar talent again ...
... reform in all these institutions , their abuses will be redressed , and the way will be open again to the advantages which arise from the division of labor , and a man may select the fittest employment for his peculiar talent again ...
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