Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page ix
... respect , and makes several confessions in his letters of his unsociability and shyness : " None knows better than I , more's the pity , the gloomy inhospitality of the man ; the want of power to meet and unite with even those whom he ...
... respect , and makes several confessions in his letters of his unsociability and shyness : " None knows better than I , more's the pity , the gloomy inhospitality of the man ; the want of power to meet and unite with even those whom he ...
Page xxii
... respects he is unflinchingly modern , as he is also in his cheerful acceptance of the achievements of science . But with all this , and although he has no special philosophy to back him , he holds an impregnable faith in the divine ...
... respects he is unflinchingly modern , as he is also in his cheerful acceptance of the achievements of science . But with all this , and although he has no special philosophy to back him , he holds an impregnable faith in the divine ...
Page xxvii
... respect for his nature . Especially he hates what he has , if he see that it is accidental - came to him by inheritance , or gift , or crime ; then he feels that it is not having ; it does not belong to him , has no root in him , and ...
... respect for his nature . Especially he hates what he has , if he see that it is accidental - came to him by inheritance , or gift , or crime ; then he feels that it is not having ; it does not belong to him , has no root in him , and ...
Page xxviii
... respecting our family life is , he insists , that we are slaves of possessions and appliances . The father wastes a life in money - making ; the son is overmastered by his inheritance . The end of life is lost sight of ; the pursuit of ...
... respecting our family life is , he insists , that we are slaves of possessions and appliances . The father wastes a life in money - making ; the son is overmastered by his inheritance . The end of life is lost sight of ; the pursuit of ...
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... respect parties quite too good and too transparent to the whole world , to make it needful to affect any prudery of ... respecting the same period-- in which he roughly sketches his own theory . " Here is my theory of structure : A ...
... respect parties quite too good and too transparent to the whole world , to make it needful to affect any prudery of ... respecting the same period-- in which he roughly sketches his own theory . " Here is my theory of structure : A ...
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