Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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... English Reviews . But we must pass by this and so much else upon which Mr. Cabot throws fresh light , and stop only to note briefly what will help us to see Emerson in true perspective , related to his own time and to that ever ...
... English Reviews . But we must pass by this and so much else upon which Mr. Cabot throws fresh light , and stop only to note briefly what will help us to see Emerson in true perspective , related to his own time and to that ever ...
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... English ground , with my companion , an American artist , from the Tower up through Cheapside and the Strand , to a house in Russell Square , whither we had been recommended to good chambers . For the first time for many months we were ...
... English ground , with my companion , an American artist , from the Tower up through Cheapside and the Strand , to a house in Russell Square , whither we had been recommended to good chambers . For the first time for many months we were ...
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... English whim upon the immutable past . No great man ever had a great son , if Philip and Alexander be not an exception ; and Philip he calls the greater man . In art , he loves the Greeks , and in sculpture , them only . He prefers the ...
... English whim upon the immutable past . No great man ever had a great son , if Philip and Alexander be not an exception ; and Philip he calls the greater man . In art , he loves the Greeks , and in sculpture , them only . He prefers the ...
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... English delight to indulge , as if to signalise their commanding freedom . He has a wonderful brain , despotic , violent , and inexhaustible , meant for a soldier , by what chance converted to letters , in which there is not a style nor ...
... English delight to indulge , as if to signalise their commanding freedom . He has a wonderful brain , despotic , violent , and inexhaustible , meant for a soldier , by what chance converted to letters , in which there is not a style nor ...
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... English pauperism , the crowded country , the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform . ' Government should direct poor men what to do . Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors . My dame makes ...
... English pauperism , the crowded country , the selfish abdication by public men of all that public persons should perform . ' Government should direct poor men what to do . Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors . My dame makes ...
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