The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lecturesHoughton, Mifflin, 1854 |
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... gratefully recognize the help received from the works of various writers about my father . EDWARD WALDO EMERSon . CONCORD , April 8th , 1903 . CONTENTS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH PAGE xi NATURE I THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR viii PREFACE.
... gratefully recognize the help received from the works of various writers about my father . EDWARD WALDO EMERSon . CONCORD , April 8th , 1903 . CONTENTS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH PAGE xi NATURE I THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR viii PREFACE.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. CONTENTS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH PAGE xi NATURE I THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR 1 79 An Oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society , at Cambridge , August 31 , 1837 . AN ADDRESS 117 Delivered before ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. CONTENTS BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH PAGE xi NATURE I THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR 1 79 An Oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society , at Cambridge , August 31 , 1837 . AN ADDRESS 117 Delivered before ...
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... page . I only would say that it needs a strong head to bear that diet . One must be an inventor to read well . As the proverb says , " He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies , must carry out the wealth of the Indies . " There ...
... page . I only would say that it needs a strong head to bear that diet . One must be an inventor to read well . As the proverb says , " He that would bring home the wealth of the Indies , must carry out the wealth of the Indies . " There ...
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... page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion . Every sentence is doubly significant , and the sense of our author is as broad as the world . We then see , what is always true , that as the seer's hour of vision ...
... page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion . Every sentence is doubly significant , and the sense of our author is as broad as the world . We then see , what is always true , that as the seer's hour of vision ...
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... Page I , note I. Mr. Emerson loved to place a motto at the head of his chapter . Dr. Holmes suggested that the hereditary use of a text before a discourse survived thus in him . Before Nature in the first edition he placed the words of ...
... Page I , note I. Mr. Emerson loved to place a motto at the head of his chapter . Dr. Holmes suggested that the hereditary use of a text before a discourse survived thus in him . Before Nature in the first edition he placed the words of ...
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