The Essay on Self-relianceThe Roycrofters, 1908 - 82 pages |
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Page 19
... popular charities ; the education at college of fools ; the building of meeting - houses to the vain end to which many now stand ; alms to sots ; and the thousandfold Relief Societies ; though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb ...
... popular charities ; the education at college of fools ; the building of meeting - houses to the vain end to which many now stand ; alms to sots ; and the thousandfold Relief Societies ; though I confess with shame I sometimes succumb ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule . Self- There is the man and his virtues . Reliance Men do what is called a good action , as some piece of courage or charity , much as they ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule . Self- There is the man and his virtues . Reliance Men do what is called a good action , as some piece of courage or charity , much as they ...
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... popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead drunk in the street , carried to the duke's house , washed and dressed and laid in the duke's bed , and on his waking , treat- ed with all obsequious ceremony like the duke , and assured ...
... popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead drunk in the street , carried to the duke's house , washed and dressed and laid in the duke's bed , and on his waking , treat- ed with all obsequious ceremony like the duke , and assured ...
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... , all persons have their moments of reason when they look out into the region of absolute truth ; then will they justify me and do the same thing o The populace think that your rejec- tion of popular standards is a rejec- tion of all 55.
... , all persons have their moments of reason when they look out into the region of absolute truth ; then will they justify me and do the same thing o The populace think that your rejec- tion of popular standards is a rejec- tion of all 55.
Page 56
Ralph Waldo Emerson. tion of popular standards is a rejec- tion of all standard , and mere anti- Self- nomianism ; and the bold sensualist Reliance will use the name of philosophy to gild his ... popular code . If any one ima- gines that 56.
Ralph Waldo Emerson. tion of popular standards is a rejec- tion of all standard , and mere anti- Self- nomianism ; and the bold sensualist Reliance will use the name of philosophy to gild his ... popular code . If any one ima- gines that 56.
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