Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page xxiv
... hour . " Emerson's doctrine of the Universal Mind is the starting point of his ethics . His central ethical idea is that famous one of Self - Reliance , by which he signifies trust in the dictates of the essentially divine , and ...
... hour . " Emerson's doctrine of the Universal Mind is the starting point of his ethics . His central ethical idea is that famous one of Self - Reliance , by which he signifies trust in the dictates of the essentially divine , and ...
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... hour , but find it impossible to recall the largest part of his discourse , which was often like so many printed paragraphs in his book - perhaps the same- so readily did he fall into certain commonplaces . As I might have foreseen ...
... hour , but find it impossible to recall the largest part of his discourse , which was often like so many printed paragraphs in his book - perhaps the same- so readily did he fall into certain commonplaces . As I might have foreseen ...
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... hour every day , and that is all the Londoner knows or wishes to know on the subject . But it turned out good men . He named certain individuals , especially one man of letters , his friend , the best mind he knew , whom London had well ...
... hour every day , and that is all the Londoner knows or wishes to know on the subject . But it turned out good men . He named certain individuals , especially one man of letters , his friend , the best mind he knew , whom London had well ...
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... hours in the course of a year as any other European ; or , his life as a workman is three lives . He works fast . Everything in England is at a quick pace . They have reinforced their own productivity by the creation of that marvellous ...
... hours in the course of a year as any other European ; or , his life as a workman is three lives . He works fast . Everything in England is at a quick pace . They have reinforced their own productivity by the creation of that marvellous ...
Page 53
... hour . It hides in their sturdy will . Will , " , " said the old philosophy , " is the measure of power , " and personality is the token of this race . Quid vult valde vult . What they do they do with a will . You cannot account for ...
... hour . It hides in their sturdy will . Will , " , " said the old philosophy , " is the measure of power , " and personality is the token of this race . Quid vult valde vult . What they do they do with a will . You cannot account for ...
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