The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 |
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Page 114
... Young men of the fairest promise , who begin life upon our shores , inflated by the mountain winds , shined upon by all the stars of God , find the earth below not in unison with these , but are hindered from action by the disgust which ...
... Young men of the fairest promise , who begin life upon our shores , inflated by the mountain winds , shined upon by all the stars of God , find the earth below not in unison with these , but are hindered from action by the disgust which ...
Page 230
... young men . The young man , on entering life , finds the way to lucrative employments blocked with abuses . The ways of trade are grown selfish to the borders of theft , and supple to the borders ( if not beyond the borders ) of fraud ...
... young men . The young man , on entering life , finds the way to lucrative employments blocked with abuses . The ways of trade are grown selfish to the borders of theft , and supple to the borders ( if not beyond the borders ) of fraud ...
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... YOUNG AMERICAN GENTLEMEN : IT is remarkable that our THE YOUNG AMERICAN A Lecture read before the Mercantile Library Asso- ciation, Boston, February 7, 1844.
... YOUNG AMERICAN GENTLEMEN : IT is remarkable that our THE YOUNG AMERICAN A Lecture read before the Mercantile Library Asso- ciation, Boston, February 7, 1844.
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