Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page xx
... look aright . He is no seeker and praiser of the rare and exquisite , but would make common things poetic and ordinary duties admirable . With this practical purpose he seeks not only to help to that poetic apprehension of the world ...
... look aright . He is no seeker and praiser of the rare and exquisite , but would make common things poetic and ordinary duties admirable . With this practical purpose he seeks not only to help to that poetic apprehension of the world ...
Page xxvii
... look into the law of property by which men drive a trade in the great boundless Providence which has given the air , the water , and the land to men to use , and not to fence in and monopolise . " " A cultivated man becomes ashamed of ...
... look into the law of property by which men drive a trade in the great boundless Providence which has given the air , the water , and the land to men to use , and not to fence in and monopolise . " " A cultivated man becomes ashamed of ...
Page xxviii
... look at the home ; does it , he asks , express the edu- cational idea ? Is it a place of noble hospitality arranged for the highest benefits ? He finds it , in too many instances , a sort of warehouse of finery , overweighted by the ...
... look at the home ; does it , he asks , express the edu- cational idea ? Is it a place of noble hospitality arranged for the highest benefits ? He finds it , in too many instances , a sort of warehouse of finery , overweighted by the ...
Page xxxii
... For this quality in modern literature we must go to his great countryman , that passionate comrade of men and women , Walt Whitman . By way of realising Emerson's lack , let us look for a moment at an expression of the xxxii INTRODUCTION .
... For this quality in modern literature we must go to his great countryman , that passionate comrade of men and women , Walt Whitman . By way of realising Emerson's lack , let us look for a moment at an expression of the xxxii INTRODUCTION .
Page xxxiii
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Percival Chubb. us look for a moment at an expression of the shadow side of life : " In order that a man may preserve a lofty frame of mind , . . . to keep a higher consciousness alive in him , pain , suffering , and ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Percival Chubb. us look for a moment at an expression of the shadow side of life : " In order that a man may preserve a lofty frame of mind , . . . to keep a higher consciousness alive in him , pain , suffering , and ...
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