The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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Page 17
... hears From a log cabin stream Beethoven's notes On the piano , played with master's hand . • Well done ! ' he cries ; the bear is kept at bay , The lynx , the rattlesnake , the flood , the fire : All the fierce enemies , ague , hunger ...
... hears From a log cabin stream Beethoven's notes On the piano , played with master's hand . • Well done ! ' he cries ; the bear is kept at bay , The lynx , the rattlesnake , the flood , the fire : All the fierce enemies , ague , hunger ...
Page 27
... Hear the definition which Kant gives of moral conduct : " Act al- ways so that the immediate motive of thy will may become a universal rule for all intelligent beings . " Civilization depends on morality . Everything good in man leans ...
... Hear the definition which Kant gives of moral conduct : " Act al- ways so that the immediate motive of thy will may become a universal rule for all intelligent beings . " Civilization depends on morality . Everything good in man leans ...
Page 50
... hear it , it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet . The feeling of all great poets has accorded with this . They found the verse , not made it . The muse ...
... hear it , it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet . The feeling of all great poets has accorded with this . They found the verse , not made it . The muse ...
Page 62
... hear worse orators than them- selves.1 But this lust to speak marks the universal feeling of the energy of the engine , and the cu- riosity men feel to touch the springs . Of all the musical instruments on which men play , a popu- lar ...
... hear worse orators than them- selves.1 But this lust to speak marks the universal feeling of the energy of the engine , and the cu- riosity men feel to touch the springs . Of all the musical instruments on which men play , a popu- lar ...
Page 67
... hear their own native language for the first time , and leap to hear it . But all these several audiences , each above each , which successively appear to greet the variety of style and topic , are really com- posed out of the same ...
... hear their own native language for the first time , and leap to hear it . But all these several audiences , each above each , which successively appear to greet the variety of style and topic , are really com- posed out of the same ...
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