Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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... its genuine worth and admir- able achievements . Gathered round the central and commanding figure of Emerson were many persons of striking personality , exceptional gifts , and wide attainments . They included the INTRODUCTION . XV.
... its genuine worth and admir- able achievements . Gathered round the central and commanding figure of Emerson were many persons of striking personality , exceptional gifts , and wide attainments . They included the INTRODUCTION . XV.
Page xix
... avoided traversing ground covered by Mr. Dircks in his sketch of Concord and Transcendental times and persons prefixed to Thoreau's Walden in this Series . 66 of imagination and abstraction , he never forgets the INTRODUCTION . xix.
... avoided traversing ground covered by Mr. Dircks in his sketch of Concord and Transcendental times and persons prefixed to Thoreau's Walden in this Series . 66 of imagination and abstraction , he never forgets the INTRODUCTION . xix.
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... persons . If Goethe had still been living , I might have wan- dered into Germany also . Besides those I have named ( for Scott was dead ) , there was not in Britain the man living whom I cared to behold , unless it were the Duke of ...
... persons . If Goethe had still been living , I might have wan- dered into Germany also . Besides those I have named ( for Scott was dead ) , there was not in Britain the man living whom I cared to behold , unless it were the Duke of ...
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... persons , as they respect parties quite too good and too transparent to the whole world , to make it needful to ... person so well formed , that he might be pardoned , if , as was alleged , the face of his Medora , and the figure of a ...
... persons , as they respect parties quite too good and too transparent to the whole world , to make it needful to ... person so well formed , that he might be pardoned , if , as was alleged , the face of his Medora , and the figure of a ...
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... persons who loved the good , for one person who loved the true ; but it is a far greater virtue to love the true for itself alone , than to love the good forāitself alone . He ( Cole- ridge ) knew all about Unitarianism perfectly well ...
... persons who loved the good , for one person who loved the true ; but it is a far greater virtue to love the true for itself alone , than to love the good forāitself alone . He ( Cole- ridge ) knew all about Unitarianism perfectly well ...
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