Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page vii
... become to the best of his countrymen , far and near , a place of pilgrimage and revered memory , such as Grasmere is to us of England , or Weimar to the pious German . may find reason for his ready acceptance by his neighbours . in the ...
... become to the best of his countrymen , far and near , a place of pilgrimage and revered memory , such as Grasmere is to us of England , or Weimar to the pious German . may find reason for his ready acceptance by his neighbours . in the ...
Page xxvii
... become aware that we eat , and drink , and wear perjury and fraud in a hundred commodities . " This is a tolerably ... becomes ashamed of his property out of respect for his nature . Especially he hates what he has , if he see that it is ...
... become aware that we eat , and drink , and wear perjury and fraud in a hundred commodities . " This is a tolerably ... becomes ashamed of his property out of respect for his nature . Especially he hates what he has , if he see that it is ...
Page xxxiii
... becomes a plaything for the winds and waves , travels no certain road , and easily overturns . " Thus speaks Schopenhauer , and he speaks surely of a side of things which we cannot afford to ignore ; while in Emerson it finds hardly any ...
... becomes a plaything for the winds and waves , travels no certain road , and easily overturns . " Thus speaks Schopenhauer , and he speaks surely of a side of things which we cannot afford to ignore ; while in Emerson it finds hardly any ...
Page 13
... become complex . We are piqued with pure descent , but nature loves inoculation . A child blends in his face the faces of both parents , and some feature from every ancestor whose face hangs on the wall . The best nations are those most ...
... become complex . We are piqued with pure descent , but nature loves inoculation . A child blends in his face the faces of both parents , and some feature from every ancestor whose face hangs on the wall . The best nations are those most ...
Page 23
... becomes a manufacturing corporation , and every house a mill . The headlong bias to utility will let no talent lie in a napkin - if possible , will teach spiders to weave silk stock- ings . An Englishman , while he eats and drinks no ...
... becomes a manufacturing corporation , and every house a mill . The headlong bias to utility will let no talent lie in a napkin - if possible , will teach spiders to weave silk stock- ings . An Englishman , while he eats and drinks no ...
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