Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page xvii
... reform , in the first efforts towards the emancipation of women , in the Anti - slavery Agitation , and other movements , detailed mention cannot now be made ; it must suffice to say that they were active leaders in all . This very ...
... reform , in the first efforts towards the emancipation of women , in the Anti - slavery Agitation , and other movements , detailed mention cannot now be made ; it must suffice to say that they were active leaders in all . This very ...
Page xxvi
... reform , we find an attitude somewhat different from that of men of our own time ; the actuating motive to reform is hardly the same . It was not with him , as it is with us to - day , the terrible spectacle of the misery and want of ...
... reform , we find an attitude somewhat different from that of men of our own time ; the actuating motive to reform is hardly the same . It was not with him , as it is with us to - day , the terrible spectacle of the misery and want of ...
Page xxvii
... reforms are the removing of some impediment " —that is , some impediment to the free activity of the spirit , and the ... reform ; upon which he has much to say that is striking and helpful . 66 He starts from the idea that the world ...
... reforms are the removing of some impediment " —that is , some impediment to the free activity of the spirit , and the ... reform ; upon which he has much to say that is striking and helpful . 66 He starts from the idea that the world ...
Page 9
... Reform Bill , -a thing prophesied by Delolme . He alluded once or twice to his conversation with Dr. Channing , who had recently visited him ( laying his hand on a particular chair in which the Doctor had sat ) . In The conversation ...
... Reform Bill , -a thing prophesied by Delolme . He alluded once or twice to his conversation with Dr. Channing , who had recently visited him ( laying his hand on a particular chair in which the Doctor had sat ) . In The conversation ...
Page 20
... Reform- bill took away political power from a mound , a ruin , and a stone - wall , whilst Birmingham and Manchester , whose mills paid for the wars of Europe , had no representative . Purity in the elective Parliament is secured by the ...
... Reform- bill took away political power from a mound , a ruin , and a stone - wall , whilst Birmingham and Manchester , whose mills paid for the wars of Europe , had no representative . Purity in the elective Parliament is secured by the ...
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