Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonWalter Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page xxv
... fear incon- sistency ? Be sincere , and you need not be troubled . " Let each moment have its sincere record without prospect or retrospect , and no doubt the whole will be found symmetri- cal . " Emerson's first counsel of conduct is ...
... fear incon- sistency ? Be sincere , and you need not be troubled . " Let each moment have its sincere record without prospect or retrospect , and no doubt the whole will be found symmetri- cal . " Emerson's first counsel of conduct is ...
Page 9
... fears , and how society is to escape without gravest mischiefs from this source- ? He has even said , what seemed a ... fear they lack a class of men of leisure , -in short , of gentlemen , -to give a tone of honour to the community . I ...
... fears , and how society is to escape without gravest mischiefs from this source- ? He has even said , what seemed a ... fear they lack a class of men of leisure , -in short , of gentlemen , -to give a tone of honour to the community . I ...
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... fear that the seeing many relations to their thought might impair this serial continuity and lucrative concentration . They are im- patient of genius , or of minds addicted to contemplation , and cannot conceal their contempt for ...
... fear that the seeing many relations to their thought might impair this serial continuity and lucrative concentration . They are im- patient of genius , or of minds addicted to contemplation , and cannot conceal their contempt for ...
Page 46
... fear the same fault lies in their science , since they have known how to make it repulsive , and bereave nature of its charm ; -though perhaps the complaint flies wider , and the vice attaches to many more than to British physicists ...
... fear the same fault lies in their science , since they have known how to make it repulsive , and bereave nature of its charm ; -though perhaps the complaint flies wider , and the vice attaches to many more than to British physicists ...
Page 47
... fear the hostility of ideas , of poetry , of religion - ghosts which they cannot lay ; -and , having attempted to domesticate and dress the Blessed Soul itself in English broadcloth and gaiters , they are tormented with fear that herein ...
... fear the hostility of ideas , of poetry , of religion - ghosts which they cannot lay ; -and , having attempted to domesticate and dress the Blessed Soul itself in English broadcloth and gaiters , they are tormented with fear that herein ...
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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