Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page xi
... with the souls of other men ; of living and breathing , reading and writing , with one vital time - fated idea - their opinions . " Again , like his elder self , she bids him " scorn trifles , lift your aims INTRODUCTION . xi.
... with the souls of other men ; of living and breathing , reading and writing , with one vital time - fated idea - their opinions . " Again , like his elder self , she bids him " scorn trifles , lift your aims INTRODUCTION . xi.
Page xii
... opinions Emerson sought until he reached maturity . The date of Emerson's birth almost coincides with the beginnings of what we may call the New England Renascence ; —that awakening of mind and accession of culture which culminated in ...
... opinions Emerson sought until he reached maturity . The date of Emerson's birth almost coincides with the beginnings of what we may call the New England Renascence ; —that awakening of mind and accession of culture which culminated in ...
Page xiv
... opinion and habit . It fostered self - trust and a determination to follow boldly the generous promptings of the heart . It invested man , as the temple of the divine , with new significance . It raised a larger hope of human ...
... opinion and habit . It fostered self - trust and a determination to follow boldly the generous promptings of the heart . It invested man , as the temple of the divine , with new significance . It raised a larger hope of human ...
Page xx
... opinion was 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 ...
... opinion was 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 ...
Page xxx
... opinions , but for the suggestiveness and impulse conveyed . It is true to say of Emerson what Lecky says of Emerson's familiar friend , Montaigne , that " his originality consists , not so much in his definite opinions or in his ...
... opinions , but for the suggestiveness and impulse conveyed . It is true to say of Emerson what Lecky says of Emerson's familiar friend , Montaigne , that " his originality consists , not so much in his definite opinions or in his ...
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