Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st seriesHoughton Mifflin & Company, 1968 |
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Page 54
... force . It loses your time and blurs the impres- sion of your character . If you maintain a dead church , contribute to a dead Bible - society , vote with a great party either for the government or against it , ' spread your table like ...
... force . It loses your time and blurs the impres- sion of your character . If you maintain a dead church , contribute to a dead Bible - society , vote with a great party either for the government or against it , ' spread your table like ...
Page 236
... forces , and keep a slender human word among the storms , distances and accidents that drive us hither and thither , and , by persistency , make the paltry force of one man reappear to redeem its pledge after months and years in the ...
... forces , and keep a slender human word among the storms , distances and accidents that drive us hither and thither , and , by persistency , make the paltry force of one man reappear to redeem its pledge after months and years in the ...
Page 304
... force or truth of the individual soul . For it is the inert effort of each thought , having formed itself into a circular wave of cir- cumstance , as for instance an empire , rules of an art , a local usage , a religious rite , -to heap ...
... force or truth of the individual soul . For it is the inert effort of each thought , having formed itself into a circular wave of cir- cumstance , as for instance an empire , rules of an art , a local usage , a religious rite , -to heap ...
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