The Essay on Self-relianceThe Roycrofters, 1908 - 82 pages |
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Page 29
... , it will be found symmetrical , though I mean it not , and see it not . My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects . The swallow over my window should interweave that thread or straw he carries 29.
... , it will be found symmetrical , though I mean it not , and see it not . My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects . The swallow over my window should interweave that thread or straw he carries 29.
Page 30
Ralph Waldo Emerson. my window should interweave that thread or straw he carries in his bill Self- into my web also . We pass for what Reliance we are . Character teaches above our wills . Men imagine that they com- municate their virtue ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. my window should interweave that thread or straw he carries in his bill Self- into my web also . We pass for what Reliance we are . Character teaches above our wills . Men imagine that they com- municate their virtue ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. a man claims to know and speak of God , and carries you backward to the phraseology of some old mould- Self- ered nation in another country , in Reliance another world , believe him not . Is the acorn better than the ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. a man claims to know and speak of God , and carries you backward to the phraseology of some old mould- Self- ered nation in another country , in Reliance another world , believe him not . Is the acorn better than the ...
Page 68
... carries ruins to ruins D Traveling is a fool's paradise . We owe to our first journeys the discov- ery that place is nothing . At home I dream that at Naples , at Rome , I can be intoxicated with beauty , and lose my sadness . I pack my ...
... carries ruins to ruins D Traveling is a fool's paradise . We owe to our first journeys the discov- ery that place is nothing . At home I dream that at Naples , at Rome , I can be intoxicated with beauty , and lose my sadness . I pack my ...
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