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" It is easy enough for a firm man who knows the world to brook the rage of the cultivated classes. Their rage is decorous and prudent, for they are timid as being very vulnerable themselves. But when to their feminine rage the indignation of the people... "
Essays: First Series - Page 53
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 322 pages
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The Monthly magazine

Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...brook the rage of the cultivated classes. Their rage is decorous and prudent ; for they are timid, an being very vulnerable themselves. But when to their...concernment. " The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have...
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...who knows the world to brook the rage of the cultivated classes. Their rage is decorous and prudent, for they are timid as being very vulnerable themselves....indignation of the people is added, when the ignorant and poor are aroused, when the unintelligent brute force that lies at the bottom of society is made to...
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The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register

1841 - 640 pages
...who knows the world to brook the rage of the cultivated classes. Their rage is decorous and prudent ; for they are timid, as being very vulnerable themselves....concernment. " The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...who knows the world to brook the rage of the cultivated classes. Their rage is decorous and prudent; for they are timid, as being very vulnerable themselves....concernment. The other terror that scares us from selftrust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have...
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The Monthly Review

1842 - 648 pages
...who knows the world to brook the rage of the cultivated classes. Their rage is decorous and prudent ; for they are timid, as being very vulnerable themselves....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

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...knows the world to . brook the rage of the cultivated classes. Their rage is decorous and prudent, for they are timid as being very vulnerable themselves....concernment. The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...who knows the world to brook the rage of the cultivated classes. Their rage is decorous and prudent, for they are timid as being very vulnerable themselves....concernment. The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...who knows the world to brook the rage of the cultivated classes. Their rage is decorous and prudent, for they are timid as being very vulnerable themselves....concernment. The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...brook the rage of the cultivated classes. Their rage is decorous and prudent, for they are timid ^is being very vulnerable themselves. But when to their...concernment. The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency ; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...who knows the world to brook the rage of the cultivated classes. Their rage is decorous and prudent, for they are timid as being very vulnerable themselves....aroused, when the unintelligent brute force that lies atlhe bottom of society is made to growl and mow, it needs the habit of magnanimity and religion to...
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