The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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Page 8
... begin with friendships , and all our youth is a reconnoitring and recruit- ing of the holy fraternity they shall combine for the salvation of men . But so the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light , yet there is no group which a ...
... begin with friendships , and all our youth is a reconnoitring and recruit- ing of the holy fraternity they shall combine for the salvation of men . But so the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light , yet there is no group which a ...
Page 21
... begin or end the list of those feats of liberty and wit , each of which feats made an epoch of history ? Thus the effect of a framed or stone house is immense on the tranquillity , power and refinement of the builder . A man in a cave ...
... begin or end the list of those feats of liberty and wit , each of which feats made an epoch of history ? Thus the effect of a framed or stone house is immense on the tranquillity , power and refinement of the builder . A man in a cave ...
Page 25
... begin to play . In man they are all unbound and full of joyful action . With this unswaddling he receives the absolute illumination we call Rea- son , and thereby true liberty . Climate has much to do with this melioration . The highest ...
... begin to play . In man they are all unbound and full of joyful action . With this unswaddling he receives the absolute illumination we call Rea- son , and thereby true liberty . Climate has much to do with this melioration . The highest ...
Page 64
... begin to redress . Isocrates described his art as " the power of magnifying what was small and diminishing what was great , ' -an acute but partial definition . Among the Spartans , the art assumed a Spartan shape , namely , of the ...
... begin to redress . Isocrates described his art as " the power of magnifying what was small and diminishing what was great , ' -an acute but partial definition . Among the Spartans , the art assumed a Spartan shape , namely , of the ...
Page 94
... begin to ask , " What is he driving at ? " and if this man does not stand for anything , he will be deserted . A good upholder of anything which they believe , a fact- speaker of any kind , they will long follow ; but a pause in the ...
... begin to ask , " What is he driving at ? " and if this man does not stand for anything , he will be deserted . A good upholder of anything which they believe , a fact- speaker of any kind , they will long follow ; but a pause in the ...
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