Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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... THE TRANSCENDENTALIST MAN THE REFORMER POLITICS LITERATURE- 245 260 275 289 LITERARY ETHICS . 303 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR 318 MILTON AND HIS WORKS 335 INTRODUCTION . " Unless our philosophy hears the cock crow vi CONTENTS .
... THE TRANSCENDENTALIST MAN THE REFORMER POLITICS LITERATURE- 245 260 275 289 LITERARY ETHICS . 303 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR 318 MILTON AND HIS WORKS 335 INTRODUCTION . " Unless our philosophy hears the cock crow vi CONTENTS .
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... political economy ; for , in any town there , it only needed to ask what the government enacted , and reverse that to know what ought to be done ; it was the most felicitously opposite legislation to any thing good and wise . There were ...
... political economy ; for , in any town there , it only needed to ask what the government enacted , and reverse that to know what ought to be done ; it was the most felicitously opposite legislation to any thing good and wise . There were ...
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... politics ; that they make political distinction the end , and not the 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 ...
... politics ; that they make political distinction the end , and not the 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 ...
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... politics or for business strikes ; and sense of supe- riority founded on habit of victory in labour and in war ; and the appetite for superiority grows by feeding . It is easy to add to the counteracting forces to race . Credence is a ...
... politics or for business strikes ; and sense of supe- riority founded on habit of victory in labour and in war ; and the appetite for superiority grows by feeding . It is easy to add to the counteracting forces to race . Credence is a ...
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... political dependence , small tenantry , and an inferior or misplaced race . These queries concerning ancestry and blood may be well allowed , for there is no prosperity that seems more to depend on the kind of man than British ...
... political dependence , small tenantry , and an inferior or misplaced race . These queries concerning ancestry and blood may be well allowed , for there is no prosperity that seems more to depend on the kind of man than British ...
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action appear beauty behold believe Ben Jonson better Celt character church conversation divine doctrine Emerson England English Ernest Rhys eternal evil fact faith fear feel force genius give Goethe Greek Havelock Ellis hear heart heaven honour hour human idea individual inspiration instinct intellect justice labour live look man's manual labour Margaret Fuller means Milton mind moral nations nature never noble numbers opinion perfect persons Phidias philosophy Phocion Plato poet poetry political present race reform relations religion religious Richard of Devizes Saxon scholar secret seems sense sentiment Shakespeare society soul speak spirit stand sublime T. W. Rolleston talent thee things thou thought tion to-day true truth universe virtue WALTER SCOTT whilst whole wisdom wise wish words write