The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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Page 10
... young barrister said to the late Mr. Mason , " I 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 ...
... young barrister said to the late Mr. Mason , " I 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 ...
Page 12
... young men at the law - school talk together , he reckoned him- self a boor ; but whenever he caught them apart , and had one to himself alone , then they were the boors and he the better man . And if we recall the rare hours when we ...
... young men at the law - school talk together , he reckoned him- self a boor ; but whenever he caught them apart , and had one to himself alone , then they were the boors and he the better man . And if we recall the rare hours when we ...
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... young men who break through all fences , and make themselves at home in every house ? I find out in an instant if my companion does not want me , and ropes cannot hold me when my welcome . is gone . One would think that the affinities ...
... young men who break through all fences , and make themselves at home in every house ? I find out in an instant if my companion does not want me , and ropes cannot hold me when my welcome . is gone . One would think that the affinities ...
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... young men , when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator ? He has his audience at his devotion . All other fames must hush before his . He is the true potentate ; for they are not kings who sit on thrones ...
... young men , when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator ? He has his audience at his devotion . All other fames must hush before his . He is the true potentate ; for they are not kings who sit on thrones ...
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... Young men , too , are eager to enjoy this sense of added power and enlarged sympathetic existence . The orator sees himself the organ of a multitude , and concentrating their valors and powers : - " But now the blood of twenty thousand ...
... Young men , too , are eager to enjoy this sense of added power and enlarged sympathetic existence . The orator sees himself the organ of a multitude , and concentrating their valors and powers : - " But now the blood of twenty thousand ...
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