The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lecturesHoughton, Mifflin, 1854 |
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Page xv
... true picture of the life of these brothers in their childhood , and speaking of their air castles says , " Woe to them if their wishes were crowned . The angels that dwell with them and are weav- ing laurels of life for their youthful ...
... true picture of the life of these brothers in their childhood , and speaking of their air castles says , " Woe to them if their wishes were crowned . The angels that dwell with them and are weav- ing laurels of life for their youthful ...
Page xvii
... true phi- losopher in college , and Mr. Farrar and Mr. Hedge and Dr. Ware the false . Yet what seemed then to me less probable ? " Four of the Emerson boys went through college , and each had by teaching to help the others ; the younger ...
... true phi- losopher in college , and Mr. Farrar and Mr. Hedge and Dr. Ware the false . Yet what seemed then to me less probable ? " Four of the Emerson boys went through college , and each had by teaching to help the others ; the younger ...
Page xxv
... true . As God liveth , he said , -- The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets still unbroken , Still floats upon the morning wind , Still whispers to the willing mind . From this time on , to the last days of his life ...
... true . As God liveth , he said , -- The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets still unbroken , Still floats upon the morning wind , Still whispers to the willing mind . From this time on , to the last days of his life ...
Page xxxiii
... true miracle of the loaves and fishes . " For thirty years thereafter the official doors of Harvard College were shut to him . But the tempest was , as he said , " in a wash bowl , " and the country colleges still bade him to speak to ...
... true miracle of the loaves and fishes . " For thirty years thereafter the official doors of Harvard College were shut to him . But the tempest was , as he said , " in a wash bowl , " and the country colleges still bade him to speak to ...
Page xxxvii
... ... and these wishes , I sup- pose , are ever only the buds of power , but up to this hour I have never had a true success in such attempts . " - From boyhood he had written verses , at first correct BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Xxxvii.
... ... and these wishes , I sup- pose , are ever only the buds of power , but up to this hour I have never had a true success in such attempts . " - From boyhood he had written verses , at first correct BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH Xxxvii.
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