Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonWalter Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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... church the Emersons attended . Channing had been greatly attracted by the spiritual philosophy of Coleridge , and by the poetry of Wordsworth . The study of Coleridge , to which he stimulated many of his younger contemporaries , begot ...
... church the Emersons attended . Channing had been greatly attracted by the spiritual philosophy of Coleridge , and by the poetry of Wordsworth . The study of Coleridge , to which he stimulated many of his younger contemporaries , begot ...
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... churches or schools , but what newspapers ? My friend , Colonel Hamilton , at the foot of the hill , who was a year in America , assures me that the newspapers are atrocious , and accuse members of Congress of stealing spoons ! ' He was ...
... churches or schools , but what newspapers ? My friend , Colonel Hamilton , at the foot of the hill , who was a year in America , assures me that the newspapers are atrocious , and accuse members of Congress of stealing spoons ! ' He was ...
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... church is artificial . The manners and customs of society are artificial - made - up men with made - up manners - and thus the whole is Birming- hamised , and we have a nation whose existence is a work of 66 * Sir S. Romilly , purest of ...
... church is artificial . The manners and customs of society are artificial - made - up men with made - up manners - and thus the whole is Birming- hamised , and we have a nation whose existence is a work of 66 * Sir S. Romilly , purest of ...
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... Church and State , and , second , to be born poor , or to come to poverty . A natural fruit of England is the brutal political economy . Malthus finds no cover laid at nature's table for the labourer's son . In 1809 , the majority in ...
... Church and State , and , second , to be born poor , or to come to poverty . A natural fruit of England is the brutal political economy . Malthus finds no cover laid at nature's table for the labourer's son . In 1809 , the majority in ...
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... church . And English life , it is evident , does not grow out of the Athanasian Creed , or the Articles , or the Eucharist . It is with religion as with marriage . A youth marries in haste ; afterwards , when his mind is opened to the ...
... church . And English life , it is evident , does not grow out of the Athanasian Creed , or the Articles , or the Eucharist . It is with religion as with marriage . A youth marries in haste ; afterwards , when his mind is opened to the ...
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