Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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Page 33
... mind in a right di rection . The preternatural prowess of the hero , the gift of perpetual youth , and the like , are alike the endeavor of the human spirit " to bend the 3 HISTORY . 33 Helen, and Leda, are somewhat, and do ...
... mind in a right di rection . The preternatural prowess of the hero , the gift of perpetual youth , and the like , are alike the endeavor of the human spirit " to bend the 3 HISTORY . 33 Helen, and Leda, are somewhat, and do ...
Page 34
... gifts are capricious and not to be trusted ; that who seeks a treasure must not speak ; and the like , I find true in Concord , however they might be in Cornwall or Bretagne . Is it otherwise in the newest romance ? I read the Bride of ...
... gifts are capricious and not to be trusted ; that who seeks a treasure must not speak ; and the like , I find true in Concord , however they might be in Cornwall or Bretagne . Is it otherwise in the newest romance ? I read the Bride of ...
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... gifts may be , I actually am , and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fel- lows any secondary testimony . What I must do , is all that concerns me , not what the people think . This rule , equally ardu ous in actual ...
... gifts may be , I actually am , and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fel- lows any secondary testimony . What I must do , is all that concerns me , not what the people think . This rule , equally ardu ous in actual ...
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... gift you can present every moment with the cum- ulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another , you have only an extemporaneous , half possession . That which each can do best , none but his Maker ...
... gift you can present every moment with the cum- ulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another , you have only an extemporaneous , half possession . That which each can do best , none but his Maker ...
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... gift , or crime ; then he feels that it is not having ; it does not belong to him , has no root in him , and merely lies there , be- cause no revolution or no robber takes it away . But that which a man is , does always by neces- sity ...
... gift , or crime ; then he feels that it is not having ; it does not belong to him , has no root in him , and merely lies there , be- cause no revolution or no robber takes it away . But that which a man is , does always by neces- sity ...
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| Title | Essays: First Series Volume 2 of Emerson's complete works : Riverside edition |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | H. Altemus, 1899 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 6 Oct 2015 |
| Length | 322 pages |
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