Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page ix
... less than of his published writings . It was a trait of the man as well as the writer ; he never became really intimate - heart to heart - with any of his friends , nor even with his wife . He did not know how to be familiar . He was ...
... less than of his published writings . It was a trait of the man as well as the writer ; he never became really intimate - heart to heart - with any of his friends , nor even with his wife . He did not know how to be familiar . He was ...
Page xiii
... less known world of external phenomena , and had sought to explain man by their action upon the tabula rasa of the mind ; Kant , on the other hand , set out from man , or from mind in man , as the better known , and endeavoured to ...
... less known world of external phenomena , and had sought to explain man by their action upon the tabula rasa of the mind ; Kant , on the other hand , set out from man , or from mind in man , as the better known , and endeavoured to ...
Page xx
... less important than the spirit in which it is held ; how , as Mr. Pater happily says in regard to Sir Thomas Browne , " fallacy , like truth itself , is a matter so dependent on innate gift of apprehension , so præterlogical and ...
... less important than the spirit in which it is held ; how , as Mr. Pater happily says in regard to Sir Thomas Browne , " fallacy , like truth itself , is a matter so dependent on innate gift of apprehension , so præterlogical and ...
Page xxx
... less sublime in the columns of a ledger than in the budgets of states , in the laws of light and darkness , in all the action and reaction of nature . " In attempting to methodise Emerson we are conscious of doing him a certain violence ...
... less sublime in the columns of a ledger than in the budgets of states , in the laws of light and darkness , in all the action and reaction of nature . " In attempting to methodise Emerson we are conscious of doing him a certain violence ...
Page 12
... less effective ; as , personal liberty ; plenty of food ; good ale and mutton ; open market , or good wages for every kind of labour ; high bribes to talent and skill ; the island life , or the million opportunities and outlets for ...
... less effective ; as , personal liberty ; plenty of food ; good ale and mutton ; open market , or good wages for every kind of labour ; high bribes to talent and skill ; the island life , or the million opportunities and outlets for ...
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