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" ... when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment. "
Essays - Page 23
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888
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The Monthly magazine

Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no...your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public...
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment. 12. The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act...
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The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register

1841 - 640 pages
...force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no...your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no...your head over your shoulder? Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public...
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The Monthly Review

1842 - 648 pages
...force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no concernment." Here is a characteristic preachment. " Experienced men of the world know very well that it is always...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no...your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it godlike as a trifle of no...your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...force that lies at the bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it god.like as a trifle of no...your head over your shoulder ? Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...force that lies atlhe bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to treat it god-like as a trifle of no...But why should you keep your head over your shoulder 1 Why drag about this monstrous corpse of your memory, lest you contradict somewhat you have stated...
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The Church of England quarterly review, Volume 28

1850 - 524 pages
...transcendentalist to one grappling with life's daily duties in the world, must be full of danger: — • " The other terror that scares us from self-trust is...computing our orbit than our past acts, and we are loth to disappoint them." But the deliberate acts and words of a highly trained man proceed from principles...
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