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... Whilst we use this grand cipher to expedite the affairs of our pot and kettle , we feel that we have not yet put it to its use , neither are able . We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs . Whilst we ...
... Whilst we use this grand cipher to expedite the affairs of our pot and kettle , we feel that we have not yet put it to its use , neither are able . We are like travellers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs . Whilst we ...
Page 94
... whilst they grow richer every year . " " III . There goes in the world a notion that the scholar should be a recluse , a valetudinarian , - as unfit for any handiwork or public labor as a penknife for an axe . The so - called ...
... whilst they grow richer every year . " " III . There goes in the world a notion that the scholar should be a recluse , a valetudinarian , - as unfit for any handiwork or public labor as a penknife for an axe . The so - called ...
Page 366
... whilst that of agriculture cannot easily be , inasmuch as the farmer who is not wanted by others can yet grow his own bread , whilst the manufacturer or the trader , who is not wanted , cannot , -this seemed a happy tendency . For ...
... whilst that of agriculture cannot easily be , inasmuch as the farmer who is not wanted by others can yet grow his own bread , whilst the manufacturer or the trader , who is not wanted , cannot , -this seemed a happy tendency . For ...
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| Title | The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1 The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Editor | Edward Waldo Emerson |
| Contributor | Edward Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 9 Feb 2007 |
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