Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page viii
... hope and expectancy which met the mood of his thriving and elated countrymen . This , however , is only part of the secret of his acceptance . The steady growth of his fame in England - indeed , we may say , in Europe- showed that he ...
... hope and expectancy which met the mood of his thriving and elated countrymen . This , however , is only part of the secret of his acceptance . The steady growth of his fame in England - indeed , we may say , in Europe- showed that he ...
Page xiv
... hope of human possibilities , a deeper faith in human freedom . To sum it up in the words of its able historian , Mr. Frothingham , " practically it was an assertion of the inalienable worth of man ; theoretically it was an assertion of ...
... hope of human possibilities , a deeper faith in human freedom . To sum it up in the words of its able historian , Mr. Frothingham , " practically it was an assertion of the inalienable worth of man ; theoretically it was an assertion of ...
Page xv
... hope of social regeneration . It had , too , its obvious alliance with the great European struggle for the liberation of the individual which was signalised by the French Revolution . Yet , whilst so related to the general European ...
... hope of social regeneration . It had , too , its obvious alliance with the great European struggle for the liberation of the individual which was signalised by the French Revolution . Yet , whilst so related to the general European ...
Page 45
... book - shops but politics , travels , statistics , tabulation , and engineering , and even what is called philosophy and letters is mechanical in its structure , as if inspiration had ceased , as if no vast hope , LITERATURE . 45.
... book - shops but politics , travels , statistics , tabulation , and engineering , and even what is called philosophy and letters is mechanical in its structure , as if inspiration had ceased , as if no vast hope , LITERATURE . 45.
Page 46
... hope , no sublime augury , cheers the student , no secure striding from experiment onward to a foreseen law , but only a casual dipping here and there , like diggers in California " pros- pecting for a placer " that will pay . A horizon ...
... hope , no sublime augury , cheers the student , no secure striding from experiment onward to a foreseen law , but only a casual dipping here and there , like diggers in California " pros- pecting for a placer " that will pay . A horizon ...
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