Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page xxviii
... means engages us almost entirely : " late and soon , Getting and spending we lay waste our powers . " And look at the home ; does it , he asks , express the edu- cational idea ? Is it a place of noble hospitality arranged for the ...
... means engages us almost entirely : " late and soon , Getting and spending we lay waste our powers . " And look at the home ; does it , he asks , express the edu- cational idea ? Is it a place of noble hospitality arranged for the ...
Page xxix
... means lessening the joy and fulness of life . Evil is privative ( or , as Emerson puts it in another form , it is ... mean good for others , is obvious , if the world is an integral whole , pervaded by one law , operant in all its parts ...
... means lessening the joy and fulness of life . Evil is privative ( or , as Emerson puts it in another form , it is ... mean good for others , is obvious , if the world is an integral whole , pervaded by one law , operant in all its parts ...
Page xxxi
... those moments in which the walls of self dissolve , and the dilated soul is caught up and merged in the Soul of the World . Reading Emerson , we feel that · Nature has been made a new means of grace and INTRODUCTION . xxxi.
... those moments in which the walls of self dissolve , and the dilated soul is caught up and merged in the Soul of the World . Reading Emerson , we feel that · Nature has been made a new means of grace and INTRODUCTION . xxxi.
Page xxxii
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Percival Chubb. Nature has been made a new means of grace and help to salvation . There are many interesting features of a general charac- ter which in a longer study of Emerson might be profitably noticed . There is ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Percival Chubb. Nature has been made a new means of grace and help to salvation . There are many interesting features of a general charac- ter which in a longer study of Emerson might be profitably noticed . There is ...
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... means . And I fear they lack a class of men of leisure , -in short , of gentlemen , -to give a tone of honour to the community . I am told that things are boasted of in the second class of society there , which , in England , —God knows ...
... means . And I fear they lack a class of men of leisure , -in short , of gentlemen , -to give a tone of honour to the community . I am told that things are boasted of in the second class of society there , which , in England , —God knows ...
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