The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: English traitsHoughton Mifflin, 1903 |
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... scholar fancies it happiness enough to live with people who can give an inside to the world ; without reflecting that they are prisoners , too , of their own thought , and cannot apply themselves to yours . The conditions of literary ...
... scholar fancies it happiness enough to live with people who can give an inside to the world ; without reflecting that they are prisoners , too , of their own thought , and cannot apply themselves to yours . The conditions of literary ...
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... scholar must still go back to Landor for a multitude of elegant sentences ; for wisdom , wit , and indig- nation that are unforgetable . ' From London , on the 5th August , I went to Highgate , and wrote a note to Mr. Coleridge ...
... scholar must still go back to Landor for a multitude of elegant sentences ; for wisdom , wit , and indig- nation that are unforgetable . ' From London , on the 5th August , I went to Highgate , and wrote a note to Mr. Coleridge ...
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... scholar nourished his mighty heart . ' Carlyle was a man from his youth , an author who did not need to hide from his readers , and as absolute a man of the world , unknown and exiled on that hill - farm , as if holding on his own terms ...
... scholar nourished his mighty heart . ' Carlyle was a man from his youth , an author who did not need to hide from his readers , and as absolute a man of the world , unknown and exiled on that hill - farm , as if holding on his own terms ...
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... 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 fixed hour ...
... 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 fixed hour ...
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... scholars of all those capitals . But England is anchored at the side of Europe , and right in the heart of the modern world . The sea , which , according to Virgil's famous line , divided the poor Britons utterly from the world ...
... scholars of all those capitals . But England is anchored at the side of Europe , and right in the heart of the modern world . The sea , which , according to Virgil's famous line , divided the poor Britons utterly from the world ...
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