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Page 17
If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition , and comes to me with his last news of the Barbadoes , why should I not say to him , “ Go love thy infant ; love thy wood - chopper : be good - natured and modest 17.
If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition , and comes to me with his last news of the Barbadoes , why should I not say to him , “ Go love thy infant ; love thy wood - chopper : be good - natured and modest 17.
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I would write on the lintels of the door - post , Whim . I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last , but we cannot spend the day in explanation . Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company .
I would write on the lintels of the door - post , Whim . I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last , but we cannot spend the day in explanation . Expect me not to show cause why I seek or why I exclude company .
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If this aversation had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own , he might well go home with a sad countenance ; but the sour faces of the multitude , like their sweet faces , have no deep cause , -dis, guise no god , but are ...
If this aversation had its origin in contempt and resistance like his own , he might well go home with a sad countenance ; but the sour faces of the multitude , like their sweet faces , have no deep cause , -dis, guise no god , but are ...
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Every true man is a cause , a country , and an age ; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his thought ; -and posterity seem to follow his steps as a procession . A man Cæsar is born and for ages after ...
Every true man is a cause , a country , and an age ; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his thought ; -and posterity seem to follow his steps as a procession . A man Cæsar is born and for ages after ...
Page 39
We first share the life by which things exist , and afterwards see them as appearances in nature , and forget that we have shared their cause . Here is the fountain of action and the fountain of 39.
We first share the life by which things exist , and afterwards see them as appearances in nature , and forget that we have shared their cause . Here is the fountain of action and the fountain of 39.
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| Title | The Essay on Self-reliance |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | The Roycrofters, 1908 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 8 Dec 2015 |
| Length | 82 pages |
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