Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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... conversation in easy command ; cling- ing to his northern accent with evident relish ; full of lively anecdote , and with a streaming humour , which floated every- thing he looked upon . His talk playfully exalting the familiar objects ...
... conversation in easy command ; cling- ing to his northern accent with evident relish ; full of lively anecdote , and with a streaming humour , which floated every- thing he looked upon . His talk playfully exalting the familiar objects ...
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... conversation with Dr. Channing , who had recently visited him ( laying his hand on a particular chair in which the Doctor had sat ) . In The conversation turned on books . Lucretius he esteems a far higher poet than Virgil : not in his ...
... conversation with Dr. Channing , who had recently visited him ( laying his hand on a particular chair in which the Doctor had sat ) . In The conversation turned on books . Lucretius he esteems a far higher poet than Virgil : not in his ...
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... conversation , he made the impression of a narrow and very English mind ; of one who paid for his rare elevation by general tameness and conformity . Off his own beat , his opinions were of no value . It is not very rare to find persons ...
... conversation , he made the impression of a narrow and very English mind ; of one who paid for his rare elevation by general tameness and conformity . Off his own beat , his opinions were of no value . It is not very rare to find persons ...
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... conversation approaches the English church . After that , you talk with a box - turtle . The action of the university , both in what is taught , and in the spirit of the place , is directed more on producing an English gentleman , than ...
... conversation approaches the English church . After that , you talk with a box - turtle . The action of the university , both in what is taught , and in the spirit of the place , is directed more on producing an English gentleman , than ...
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... conversation , in which a man lays himself open to his brother , apprises each of their radical unity . When two persons sit and converse in a thoroughly good understanding , the remark is sure to be made , " See how we have disputed ...
... conversation , in which a man lays himself open to his brother , apprises each of their radical unity . When two persons sit and converse in a thoroughly good understanding , the remark is sure to be made , " See how we have disputed ...
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