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Essays: Second Series - Page 226
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1855 - 274 pages
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Essays: 2nd series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1867 - 274 pages
...notaries' offices, the offices of sealers of weights and measures, of inspection of provisions,—it will appear as if one man had made it all. Wherever...were newly written. The modernness of all good books seerns to give me an existence as wide as man. What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill done,...
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Half truths and the truth, lects. on the origin and development of ...

Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 544 pages
...Again he says, " I am much struck in literature by the appearance that one person wrote all the books; there is such equality and identity both of judgment...the work of one all-seeing, all-hearing gentleman. When I read Proclus it is not Proclus, but a piece of nature and fate that I explore. It is a greater...
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Half Truths and the Truth: Lectures on the Origin and Development of ...

Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 420 pages
...Again ho says, "I am much struck in literature by the appearance that one person wrote all the books; there is such equality and identity both of judgment...the work of one all-seeing, all-hearing gentleman. When I read Proclus it is not Proclus, but a piece of nature and fate that I explore. It is a greater...
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Half Truths and the Truth: Lectures on the Origin and Development of ...

Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 418 pages
...there is such equality find identity both of judgment and . , ,. . , A. ^i . .^ . * . . Literature. point of view in the narrative, that it is plainly...the work of one all-seeing, all-hearing gentleman. When I read Proclus it is not Proclus, but a piece of nature and fate that I explore. It is a greater...
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Essays: The poet. Experience. Character. Manners. Gifts. Nature. Politics ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 386 pages
...example ; and that of gentlemen, fraternizing with the upper class of every country and every culture.1 I am very much struck in literature by the appearance...good books seems to give me an existence as wide as man.1 What is well done I feel as if I did; what is ill done I reck not of. Shakspeare's passages of...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 238 pages
...relieved some by others from time to time; but there is such equality and identity both of jndgment and point of view in the narrative, that it is plainly...canon of to-day, as if it were newly written. ' The moderuness of all good books seems to give me an existence as wide as man. What is well done, I feel...
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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...others from time to time; but there is such equality and identity both of judgment and point of view iu the narrative, that it is plainly the work of one...Pope's Odyssey yesterday : it is as correct and elegant afler our canon of to-day, as if it were newly written. The modernness of all good books seems to give...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 234 pages
...morning and night, solstice and equinox, geometry, astronomy, and all the lovely accidents of natuve, play through his mind. 'Money, which represents the...Pope's Odyssey yesterday : it is as correct and elegant afler our canon of to-day, as if it were newly written. The modernness of all good books seems to give...
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Essays: Second Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 264 pages
...example ; and that of gentlemen fraternizing with the upper class of every country and every culture. 1 am very much struck in literature by the appearance...into Pope's Odyssey yesterday : it is as correct and elegant,after our canon of to-day, as if it were newly written. The moderness of all good books seems...
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Essays. 1901

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 554 pages
...secret and public legions of honour; that of scholars, for example ; and that of gentlemen fraternising with the upper class of every country and every culture....canon of to-day, as if it were newly written. The modemness of all good books seems to give me an existence as wide as man. What is well done, I feel...
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