Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page xxv
... one ; Nothing is great or small alone . " Of our immense indebtedness to the past could we have any more apt expression than in this passage ? - " Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus . INTRODUCTION . XXV.
... one ; Nothing is great or small alone . " Of our immense indebtedness to the past could we have any more apt expression than in this passage ? - " Every ship that comes to America got its chart from Columbus . INTRODUCTION . XXV.
Page xxvi
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Percival Chubb. that comes to America got its chart from Columbus . Every novel is a debtor to Homer . Every carpenter who shaves with a foreplane borrows the genius of a forgotten inventor . Life is girt all around ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Percival Chubb. that comes to America got its chart from Columbus . Every novel is a debtor to Homer . Every carpenter who shaves with a foreplane borrows the genius of a forgotten inventor . Life is girt all around ...
Page xxx
... come into relation with the living whole ; then we shall feel as in the presence of a sane , virile personality , which we value , not for any set opinions , but for the suggestiveness and impulse conveyed . It is true to say of Emerson ...
... come into relation with the living whole ; then we shall feel as in the presence of a sane , virile personality , which we value , not for any set opinions , but for the suggestiveness and impulse conveyed . It is true to say of Emerson ...
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... comes that no newspaper is trusted now , no books are bought , and the book- sellers are on the eve of bankruptcy ... come wandering over these moors . My dame makes it a rule to give to every son of Adam bread to eat , and supplies his ...
... comes that no newspaper is trusted now , no books are bought , and the book- sellers are on the eve of bankruptcy ... come wandering over these moors . My dame makes it a rule to give to every son of Adam bread to eat , and supplies his ...
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... comes of the pioneer state of things . But I fear they are too much given to the making of money ; and secondly , to politics ; that they make political distinction the end , and not the means . And I fear they lack a class of men of ...
... comes of the pioneer state of things . But I fear they are too much given to the making of money ; and secondly , to politics ; that they make political distinction the end , and not the means . And I fear they lack a class of men of ...
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