The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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... bring him hand to hand , he is a cripple . ' One protects himself by solitude , and one by courtesy , and one by an acid , worldly manner , -each concealing how he can the thinness of his skin and his incapacity for strict association ...
... bring him hand to hand , he is a cripple . ' One protects himself by solitude , and one by courtesy , and one by an acid , worldly manner , -each concealing how he can the thinness of his skin and his incapacity for strict association ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. 2 II WE flee away from cities , but we bring The best of cities with us , these learned classifiers , Men knowing what they seek , armed eyes of experts . We praise the guide , we praise the forest life : But will we ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. 2 II WE flee away from cities , but we bring The best of cities with us , these learned classifiers , Men knowing what they seek , armed eyes of experts . We praise the guide , we praise the forest life : But will we ...
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... bringing the uni- versity to every poor man's door in the news- boy's basket . Scraps of science , of thought , of poetry are in the coarsest sheet , so that in every house we hesitate to burn a newspaper until we have looked it through ...
... bringing the uni- versity to every poor man's door in the news- boy's basket . Scraps of science , of thought , of poetry are in the coarsest sheet , so that in every house we hesitate to burn a newspaper until we have looked it through ...
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... brings down the axe ; that is to say , the planet itself splits his stick . The farmer had much ill temper , laziness and shirking to endure from his hand - sawyers , until one day he bethought him to put his saw - mill on the edge of a ...
... brings down the axe ; that is to say , the planet itself splits his stick . The farmer had much ill temper , laziness and shirking to endure from his hand - sawyers , until one day he bethought him to put his saw - mill on the edge of a ...
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... bring the heavenly powers to us , but if we will only choose our jobs in directions in which they travel , they will undertake them with the greatest pleasure . It is a peremptory rule with them that they never go out of their road . We ...
... bring the heavenly powers to us , but if we will only choose our jobs in directions in which they travel , they will undertake them with the greatest pleasure . It is a peremptory rule with them that they never go out of their road . We ...
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