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I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church . On my saying , What have I to do with the sacred . ness of traditions , if I ...
I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church . On my saying , What have I to do with the sacred . ness of traditions , if I ...
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If you maintain a dead church , contribute to a dead Bible Society , vote with a great party either for the Government or against it , spread your table like base housekeepers , -under all these screens , I have difficulty to detect the ...
If you maintain a dead church , contribute to a dead Bible Society , vote with a great party either for the Government or against it , spread your table like base housekeepers , -under all these screens , I have difficulty to detect the ...
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I hear a Selfpreacher announce for his text and Reliance topic the expediency of one of the institutions of his church . Do I not know beforehand that not possibly can he say a new and spontaneous word ? Do I not know that all this ...
I hear a Selfpreacher announce for his text and Reliance topic the expediency of one of the institutions of his church . Do I not know beforehand that not possibly can he say a new and spontaneous word ? Do I not know that all this ...
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I like the silent church before the service begins , better than any preaching se How far off , how cool , how chaste the persons look , begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary . So let us always sit se Why should we assume the ...
I like the silent church before the service begins , better than any preaching se How far off , how cool , how chaste the persons look , begirt each one with a precinct or sanctuary . So let us always sit se Why should we assume the ...
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In proportion always to the depth of the thought , and so to the numbers of the objects it touches and brings within reach of the pupil , is his complacency . But chiefly is this apparent in creeds and churches , which are also ...
In proportion always to the depth of the thought , and so to the numbers of the objects it touches and brings within reach of the pupil , is his complacency . But chiefly is this apparent in creeds and churches , which are also ...
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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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