The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: English traitsHoughton Mifflin, 1903 |
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... London at the Tower stairs . It was a dark Sunday morning ; there were few people in the streets , and I remember the pleasure of that first walk on English ground , with my com- panion , an American artist , ' from the Tower up through ...
... London at the Tower stairs . It was a dark Sunday morning ; there were few people in the streets , and I remember the pleasure of that first walk on English ground , with my com- panion , an American artist , ' from the Tower up through ...
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... London , on the 5th August , I went to Highgate , and wrote a note to Mr. Coleridge , requesting leave to pay my respects to him.2 It was near noon . Mr. Coleridge sent a verbal message that he was in bed , but if I would call after one ...
... London , on the 5th August , I went to Highgate , and wrote a note to Mr. Coleridge , requesting leave to pay my respects to him.2 It was near noon . Mr. Coleridge sent a verbal message that he was in bed , but if I would call after one ...
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... London when he returned from that country , that Sicily was an excellent school of political economy ; for , in any town there , it only needed to ask what the government enacted , and reverse that , to know what ought to be done ; it ...
... London when he returned from that country , that Sicily was an excellent school of political economy ; for , in any town there , it only needed to ask what the government enacted , and reverse that , to know what ought to be done ; it ...
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... London . He was tall and gaunt , with a cliff- like brow , self - possessed and holding his ex- traordinary powers of conversation in easy com- mand ; clinging to his northern accent with evident relish ; full of lively anecdote and ...
... London . He was tall and gaunt , with a cliff- like brow , self - possessed and holding his ex- traordinary powers of conversation in easy com- mand ; clinging to his northern accent with evident relish ; full of lively anecdote and ...
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... London with a scholar's appreciation . London is the heart of the world , he said , wonderful only from the mass of human beings . He liked the huge machine . Each keeps its own round . The baker's boy brings muffins to the window at a ...
... London with a scholar's appreciation . London is the heart of the world , he said , wonderful only from the mass of human beings . He liked the huge machine . Each keeps its own round . The baker's boy brings muffins to the window at a ...
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