The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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Page 68
... converted into speech , all warm and colored and alive , as it fell out . Our Southern people are almost all speak- ers , and have every advantage over the New I England people , whose climate is so cold that ' 68 ELOQUENCE.
... converted into speech , all warm and colored and alive , as it fell out . Our Southern people are almost all speak- ers , and have every advantage over the New I England people , whose climate is so cold that ' 68 ELOQUENCE.
Page 69
Ralph Waldo Emerson. England people , whose climate is so cold that ' t is said we do not like to open our mouths very wide . ' But neither can the Southerner in the United States , nor the Irish , compare with the lively inhabitant of ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. England people , whose climate is so cold that ' t is said we do not like to open our mouths very wide . ' But neither can the Southerner in the United States , nor the Irish , compare with the lively inhabitant of ...
Page 70
... fairies and magicians and kings and queens , was more dear and wonderful to a circle of children than any orator in England or America is now ? 1 The more indolent and imaginative complexion of the Eastern nations 70 ELOQUENCE.
... fairies and magicians and kings and queens , was more dear and wonderful to a circle of children than any orator in England or America is now ? 1 The more indolent and imaginative complexion of the Eastern nations 70 ELOQUENCE.
Page 78
... England , that , " put him where you might , he commanded , and saw what he willed come to pass . " Julius Cæsar said to Metellus , when that tribune interfered to hinder him from entering the Roman treasury , " Young man , it is easier ...
... England , that , " put him where you might , he commanded , and saw what he willed come to pass . " Julius Cæsar said to Metellus , when that tribune interfered to hinder him from entering the Roman treasury , " Young man , it is easier ...
Page 80
... England is re- puted to have made thirty or forty thousand pounds per annum in representing the claims of railroad companies before committees of the House of Commons . His clients pay not so much for legal as for manly accomplishments ...
... England is re- puted to have made thirty or forty thousand pounds per annum in representing the claims of railroad companies before committees of the House of Commons . His clients pay not so much for legal as for manly accomplishments ...
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