Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonWalter Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page ix
... experiences was deliberate ; it was the result of studied effort to strain away from what he wrote all that was of merely private and casual interest , and to leave only what had general purport . He is never garrulous , never speaks ...
... experiences was deliberate ; it was the result of studied effort to strain away from what he wrote all that was of merely private and casual interest , and to leave only what had general purport . He is never garrulous , never speaks ...
Page xxii
... experience and the deliverances of his own mind in presence of the facts of existence . He has no doubt of the supreme worth of life , and of the possibility of making it a thing of joy to all men . The world of nature and humanity ...
... experience and the deliverances of his own mind in presence of the facts of existence . He has no doubt of the supreme worth of life , and of the possibility of making it a thing of joy to all men . The world of nature and humanity ...
Page 13
... experience is of the gradation and resolution of races , and strange resemblances meet us everywhere . It need not puzzle us that Malay and Papuan , Celt and Roman , Saxon and Tartar should mix , when we see the rudiments of tiger and ...
... experience is of the gradation and resolution of races , and strange resemblances meet us everywhere . It need not puzzle us that Malay and Papuan , Celt and Roman , Saxon and Tartar should mix , when we see the rudiments of tiger and ...
Page 18
... experience of workmen . They put the expense in the right place , as , in their sea - steamers , in the solidity of the machinery and the strength of the boat . The admirable equipment of their Arctic ships carries London to the pole ...
... experience of workmen . They put the expense in the right place , as , in their sea - steamers , in the solidity of the machinery and the strength of the boat . The admirable equipment of their Arctic ships carries London to the pole ...
Page 46
... experience must follow and not lead the laws of the mind ; a devotion to the theory of politics , like that of Hooker , and Milton , and Harrington , the modern English mind repudiates . I fear the same fault lies in their science ...
... experience must follow and not lead the laws of the mind ; a devotion to the theory of politics , like that of Hooker , and Milton , and Harrington , the modern English mind repudiates . I fear the same fault lies in their science ...
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action appear beauty behold believe Ben Jonson better Celt character church conversation divine doctrine Emerson England English Ernest Rhys eternal evil fact faith fear feel force genius give Goethe Greek Havelock Ellis hear heart heaven honour hour human idea individual inspiration instinct intellect justice labour live look man's manual labour Margaret Fuller means Milton mind moral nations nature never noble numbers opinion perfect persons Phidias philosophy Phocion Plato poet poetry political present race reform relations religion religious Richard of Devizes Saxon scholar secret seems sense sentiment Shakespeare society soul speak spirit stand sublime T. W. Rolleston talent thee things thou thought tion to-day true truth universe virtue WALTER SCOTT whilst whole wisdom wise wish words write