Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page xi
... rich in fruits and flowers , old orchards , and quiet pastures , to which little Waldo was accustomed , like other dutiful youngsters , to drive his mother's cow . The rigid frugality which had to be observed in the fatherless Emerson ...
... rich in fruits and flowers , old orchards , and quiet pastures , to which little Waldo was accustomed , like other dutiful youngsters , to drive his mother's cow . The rigid frugality which had to be observed in the fatherless Emerson ...
Page xviii
... rich in historic memories , and had a genius loci of its own . Nor was it indeed without some graces and glories of scenery ; for had it not the haunted pine woods and crystal ponds of Walden ; its distant boundary hills , the stately ...
... rich in historic memories , and had a genius loci of its own . Nor was it indeed without some graces and glories of scenery ; for had it not the haunted pine woods and crystal ponds of Walden ; its distant boundary hills , the stately ...
Page xxviii
... rich and joyous , but in order to make it so , there must be some rigour in our regimen to keep us alert , sensitive , and energetic . That is why he advocates simplicity ; holding that by it we get closer to realities , and can better ...
... rich and joyous , but in order to make it so , there must be some rigour in our regimen to keep us alert , sensitive , and energetic . That is why he advocates simplicity ; holding that by it we get closer to realities , and can better ...
Page 8
... rich people to attend to them . ' We went out to walk over long hills , and looked at Criffel , then without his cap , and down into Wordsworth's country . There we sat down , and talked of the immortality of the soul . It was not ...
... rich people to attend to them . ' We went out to walk over long hills , and looked at Criffel , then without his cap , and down into Wordsworth's country . There we sat down , and talked of the immortality of the soul . It was not ...
Page 16
... rich , and called a Baron , or a Duke , thinks the same thing , and is ready to allow the justice of the thought and act in his retainer or tenant , though sorely against his baronial or ducal will . The island was renowned in antiquity ...
... rich , and called a Baron , or a Duke , thinks the same thing , and is ready to allow the justice of the thought and act in his retainer or tenant , though sorely against his baronial or ducal will . The island was renowned in antiquity ...
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