The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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Page 10
... rule otherwise for literature . If you would learn to write , ' t is in the street you must learn it . Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine - arts you must frequent the public square . The people SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE.
... rule otherwise for literature . If you would learn to write , ' t is in the street you must learn it . Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine - arts you must frequent the public square . The people SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE.
Page 27
... rule for all intelligent beings . " Civilization depends on morality . Everything good in man leans on what is higher . This rule holds in small as in great . Thus all our strength and success in the work of our hands depend on our ...
... rule for all intelligent beings . " Civilization depends on morality . Everything good in man leans on what is higher . This rule holds in small as in great . Thus all our strength and success in the work of our hands depend on our ...
Page 29
... rule with them that they never go out of their road . We are dapper little busybodies and run this way and that way superserviceably ; but they swerve never from their foreordained paths , — neither the sun , nor the moon , nor a bubble ...
... rule with them that they never go out of their road . We are dapper little busybodies and run this way and that way superserviceably ; but they swerve never from their foreordained paths , — neither the sun , nor the moon , nor a bubble ...
Page 33
... rule of life . In the presence of these agencies it is frivolous to insist on the inven- tion of printing or gunpowder , of steam - power or gas - light , percussion - caps and rubber - shoes , which are toys thrown off from that ...
... rule of life . In the presence of these agencies it is frivolous to insist on the inven- tion of printing or gunpowder , of steam - power or gas - light , percussion - caps and rubber - shoes , which are toys thrown off from that ...
Page 66
... rules in turn . Ifany- thing comic and coarse is spoken , you shall see the emergence of the boys and rowdies , so loud and vivacious that you might think the house was filled with them . If new topics are started , graver and higher ...
... rules in turn . Ifany- thing comic and coarse is spoken , you shall see the emergence of the boys and rowdies , so loud and vivacious that you might think the house was filled with them . If new topics are started , graver and higher ...
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