The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lecturesHoughton, Mifflin, 1854 |
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Page xv
... Truth and Mutual Faith . " Rev. Ezra Ripley , the successor of their grandfather in the church of Concord , and mar- ried to his widow , welcomed the boys to the Old Manse in the holidays . So , long before he settled there , Mr ...
... Truth and Mutual Faith . " Rev. Ezra Ripley , the successor of their grandfather in the church of Concord , and mar- ried to his widow , welcomed the boys to the Old Manse in the holidays . So , long before he settled there , Mr ...
Page xvii
... Truth to your mind as to record them . " In the Journal for 1837 he wrote : " This book is my savings - bank . I grow richer because I have somewhere to deposit my earnings , and fractions are worth more to me because corre- sponding ...
... Truth to your mind as to record them . " In the Journal for 1837 he wrote : " This book is my savings - bank . I grow richer because I have somewhere to deposit my earnings , and fractions are worth more to me because corre- sponding ...
Page xxi
... truth , as far as I can discern and declare it , committed . " This was the darkest time in Mr. Emerson's life . His wife , a beautiful and spiritual woman , had died . His noble brother Edward had bro- ken down from overwork , and gone ...
... truth , as far as I can discern and declare it , committed . " This was the darkest time in Mr. Emerson's life . His wife , a beautiful and spiritual woman , had died . His noble brother Edward had bro- ken down from overwork , and gone ...
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... truth , that religious teachers dis- pute and hate each other , and speculative men are esteemed unsound and frivolous . But to a sound judgment , the most abstract truth is the most practical . Whenever a true theory appears , it will ...
... truth , that religious teachers dis- pute and hate each other , and speculative men are esteemed unsound and frivolous . But to a sound judgment , the most abstract truth is the most practical . Whenever a true theory appears , it will ...
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... truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple , the sun as its candle . Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man , only let his thoughts be of equal greatness . Willingly does she follow his steps with the ...
... truth or heroism seems at once to draw to itself the sky as its temple , the sun as its candle . Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man , only let his thoughts be of equal greatness . Willingly does she follow his steps with the ...
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