The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 11-12Wm. H. Wise, 1911 - 416 pages |
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Page 136
... truth , out it came , like a bolt from a cloud , for all the mumbling of the lawyers . One feels very sen- sibly in all this history that a great heart and soul are behind there , superior to any man , and making use of each , in turn ...
... truth , out it came , like a bolt from a cloud , for all the mumbling of the lawyers . One feels very sen- sibly in all this history that a great heart and soul are behind there , superior to any man , and making use of each , in turn ...
Page 156
... truth . Put him into a circle of cultivated men , where the conversation broaches the great questions that besiege the human reason , and he would be dumb and unhappy , as an Indian in church.o To men of a sedate and mature spirit , in ...
... truth . Put him into a circle of cultivated men , where the conversation broaches the great questions that besiege the human reason , and he would be dumb and unhappy , as an Indian in church.o To men of a sedate and mature spirit , in ...
Page 164
... truth and every error , each a thought of some man's mind , clothes itself with societies , houses , cities , lan- guage , ceremonies , newspapers . Observe the ideas of the present day , - orthodoxy , skepti- cism , missions , popular ...
... truth and every error , each a thought of some man's mind , clothes itself with societies , houses , cities , lan- guage , ceremonies , newspapers . Observe the ideas of the present day , - orthodoxy , skepti- cism , missions , popular ...
Page 165
... truth appears , as , for instance , a perception in the wit of one Columbus that there is land in the Western Sea ; though he alone of all men has that thought , and they all jeer , -it will build ships ; it will build fleets ; it will ...
... truth appears , as , for instance , a perception in the wit of one Columbus that there is land in the Western Sea ; though he alone of all men has that thought , and they all jeer , -it will build ships ; it will build fleets ; it will ...
Page 173
... truth , of love and of freedom , and immovable in the waves of the crowd . The man of principle , that is , the man who , without any flourish of trumpets , titles of lordship or train of guards , without any notice of his action abroad ...
... truth , of love and of freedom , and immovable in the waves of the crowd . The man of principle , that is , the man who , without any flourish of trumpets , titles of lordship or train of guards , without any notice of his action abroad ...
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