Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page xviii
... poor fields , Low , open meads , slender and sluggish streams , And found a home in haunts which others scorned , The partial wood - gods overpaid my love , And granted me the freedom of their state . " Besides , what mattered the ...
... poor fields , Low , open meads , slender and sluggish streams , And found a home in haunts which others scorned , The partial wood - gods overpaid my love , And granted me the freedom of their state . " Besides , what mattered the ...
Page xxiv
... poor external way of speaking ; speak rather of that which relies . " Let , then , the prompting of this self ( which is also the not - self ) find utterance in speech and following in action ; let us believe our in- stincts , and obey ...
... poor external way of speaking ; speak rather of that which relies . " Let , then , the prompting of this self ( which is also the not - self ) find utterance in speech and following in action ; let us believe our in- stincts , and obey ...
Page 7
... poor beast to one enclosure in his pen , but pig , by great strokes of judgment , had found out how to let a board down , and had foiled him . For all that , he still thought man the most plastic little fellow in the planet , and he ...
... poor beast to one enclosure in his pen , but pig , by great strokes of judgment , had found out how to let a board down , and had foiled him . For all that , he still thought man the most plastic little fellow in the planet , and he ...
Page 8
... poor men what to do . Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors . My dame makes it a rule to give to every son of Adam bread to eat , and supplies his wants to the next house . But here are thousands of acres which might give them ...
... poor men what to do . Poor Irish folk come wandering over these moors . My dame makes it a rule to give to every son of Adam bread to eat , and supplies his wants to the next house . But here are thousands of acres which might give them ...
Page 22
... poor , or to come to poverty . A natural fruit of England is the brutal political economy . Malthus finds no cover laid at nature's table for the labourer's son . In 1809 , the majority in Parlia- ment expressed itself by the language ...
... poor , or to come to poverty . A natural fruit of England is the brutal political economy . Malthus finds no cover laid at nature's table for the labourer's son . In 1809 , the majority in Parlia- ment expressed itself by the language ...
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