Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonWalter Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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... virtues he epitomised - has often been stated , and needs but bare mention here . If , as Emerson says , every man is a quotation from all his ancestors , " it is certain that in his case the quotation was as pithy as Nature could make ...
... virtues he epitomised - has often been stated , and needs but bare mention here . If , as Emerson says , every man is a quotation from all his ancestors , " it is certain that in his case the quotation was as pithy as Nature could make ...
Page xv
... virtue . " No concession to society ' " " was the cry of the new Protestants ; and so austere were some , that , seeing association of any kind involved compromise , they decided to leave society altogether and live the life of ...
... virtue . " No concession to society ' " " was the cry of the new Protestants ; and so austere were some , that , seeing association of any kind involved compromise , they decided to leave society altogether and live the life of ...
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... virtue of its own . Amidst the stir of these transcendental times and the conflict which raged round his own disquieting utterances , Emerson lived serene and uncompromised . He held aloof , as a rule , from the practical reformers ...
... virtue of its own . Amidst the stir of these transcendental times and the conflict which raged round his own disquieting utterances , Emerson lived serene and uncompromised . He held aloof , as a rule , from the practical reformers ...
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... virtue and truth and courage ? Who has so made us aware of " the linked purpose of the whole ; " of man's life as part of the cosmic life , throbbing with the pulses of universal being ? Who has made us feel the repose and exquisite ...
... virtue and truth and courage ? Who has so made us aware of " the linked purpose of the whole ; " of man's life as part of the cosmic life , throbbing with the pulses of universal being ? Who has made us feel the repose and exquisite ...
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... virtue to love the true for itself alone , than to love the good forāitself alone . He ( Cole- ridge ) knew all about Unitarianism perfectly well , because he had once been a Unitarian , and knew what quackery it was . He had been ...
... virtue to love the true for itself alone , than to love the good forāitself alone . He ( Cole- ridge ) knew all about Unitarianism perfectly well , because he had once been a Unitarian , and knew what quackery it was . He had been ...
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