Essays: First SeriesH. Altemus, 1899 - 322 pages |
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Page 163
... prudence which presides at mar- riages with words that take hold of the upper world , whilst one eye is eternally boring down into the cellar , so that its gravest discourse has ever a slight savor of hams and powdering - tubs . Worst ...
... prudence which presides at mar- riages with words that take hold of the upper world , whilst one eye is eternally boring down into the cellar , so that its gravest discourse has ever a slight savor of hams and powdering - tubs . Worst ...
Page 193
... PRUDENCE . PRUDENCE . WHAT right have I to write 13 FRIENDSHIP . 193 without a sort of treachery to the relation. The ...
... PRUDENCE . PRUDENCE . WHAT right have I to write 13 FRIENDSHIP . 193 without a sort of treachery to the relation. The ...
Page 195
First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. PRUDENCE . PRUDENCE . WHAT right have I to write on Prudence.
First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. PRUDENCE . PRUDENCE . WHAT right have I to write on Prudence.
Page 197
First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. PRUDENCE . WHAT right have I to write on Prudence , whereof I have little , and that of the negative sort ? My prudence consists in avoiding and going without , not in the inventing of means . and ...
First Series Ralph Waldo Emerson. PRUDENCE . WHAT right have I to write on Prudence , whereof I have little , and that of the negative sort ? My prudence consists in avoiding and going without , not in the inventing of means . and ...
Page 198
... prudence or law of shows , recognises the co - presence of other laws ; and knows that its own office is subaltern ; knows that it is surface and not centre where it works . Prudence is false when detached . It is legitimate when it is ...
... prudence or law of shows , recognises the co - presence of other laws ; and knows that its own office is subaltern ; knows that it is surface and not centre where it works . Prudence is false when detached . It is legitimate when it is ...
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