Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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... never became really intimate - heart to heart - with any of his friends , nor even with his wife . He did not know ... never garrulous , never speaks out of the heat and impulse of the moment ; but is habitually self - possessed ...
... never became really intimate - heart to heart - with any of his friends , nor even with his wife . He did not know ... never garrulous , never speaks out of the heat and impulse of the moment ; but is habitually self - possessed ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Percival Chubb. 66 of imagination and abstraction , he never forgets the presence of the every - day world of familiar sights and common occupations that lies busy in the plain below . It is , indeed , his chief aim ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Percival Chubb. 66 of imagination and abstraction , he never forgets the presence of the every - day world of familiar sights and common occupations that lies busy in the plain below . It is , indeed , his chief aim ...
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... never prosper until we left our shy jealous ways , and worked in society as they . All his thoughts breathed the same generosity . He was an accurate and a deep man . He was a votary of the Greeks , and impatient of Gothic art . His ...
... never prosper until we left our shy jealous ways , and worked in society as they . All his thoughts breathed the same generosity . He was an accurate and a deep man . He was a votary of the Greeks , and impatient of Gothic art . His ...
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... never to have heard of Herschel , not even by name . One room was full of pictures , which he likes to show , especially one piece , standing before which , he said " he would give fifty guineas to the man that would swear it was a ...
... never to have heard of Herschel , not even by name . One room was full of pictures , which he likes to show , especially one piece , standing before which , he said " he would give fifty guineas to the man that would swear it was a ...
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... never be spoken of . America I wish to know not how many churches or schools , but what newspapers ? My friend , Colonel Hamilton , at the foot of the hill , who was a year in America , assures me that the newspapers are atrocious , and ...
... never be spoken of . America I wish to know not how many churches or schools , but what newspapers ? My friend , Colonel Hamilton , at the foot of the hill , who was a year in America , assures me that the newspapers are atrocious , and ...
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