The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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... keep a secret all the year round . The most agreeable compliment you could pay him was to imply that you had not observed him in a house or a street where you had met him . Whilst he suffered at being seen where he was , he consoled ...
... keep a secret all the year round . The most agreeable compliment you could pay him was to imply that you had not observed him in a house or a street where you had met him . Whilst he suffered at being seen where he was , he consoled ...
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... keep his electricity . Even Swedenborg , whose theory of the universe is based on affection , and who reprobates to weariness the danger and vice of pure intellect , is constrained to make an extraordinary excep- tion : " There are also ...
... keep his electricity . Even Swedenborg , whose theory of the universe is based on affection , and who reprobates to weariness the danger and vice of pure intellect , is constrained to make an extraordinary excep- tion : " There are also ...
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... keep my chamber to read law , " " Read law ! " replied the veteran , " ' t is in the court - room you must read law . " Nor is the rule otherwise for literature . If you would learn to write , ' t is in the street you must learn it ...
... keep my chamber to read law , " " Read law ! " replied the veteran , " ' t is in the court - room you must read law . " Nor is the rule otherwise for literature . If you would learn to write , ' t is in the street you must learn it ...
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... keep the diagonal line . Solitude is impracticable , and so- ciety fatal . We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other . The conditions are met , if we keep our independence , yet do not lose our sympathy . These ...
... keep the diagonal line . Solitude is impracticable , and so- ciety fatal . We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other . The conditions are met , if we keep our independence , yet do not lose our sympathy . These ...
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... keeping of a con- fessor , or with their opinions in their bank- safes , — he will have them pleased and humored as he chooses ; and they shall carry and execute that which he bids them . This is that despotism which poets have cele ...
... keeping of a con- fessor , or with their opinions in their bank- safes , — he will have them pleased and humored as he chooses ; and they shall carry and execute that which he bids them . This is that despotism which poets have cele ...
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