The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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Page 32
... Boston , -not these that make the real estima- tion . But when I look over this constellation of cities which animate and illustrate the land , and see how little the government has to do with their daily life , how self - helped and ...
... Boston , -not these that make the real estima- tion . But when I look over this constellation of cities which animate and illustrate the land , and see how little the government has to do with their daily life , how self - helped and ...
Page 116
... Boston and Jean Paul Richter at Baireuth ? I think it plain that this voice of communities ages , ' Give us wealth , and the good house- hold shall exist , ' is vicious , and leaves the whole difficulty untouched . It is better ...
... Boston and Jean Paul Richter at Baireuth ? I think it plain that this voice of communities ages , ' Give us wealth , and the good house- hold shall exist , ' is vicious , and leaves the whole difficulty untouched . It is better ...
Page 163
... Boston . He is now in great spirits ; thinks he shall reach it yet ; thinks he shall bot- . tle the wave . It is however getting a little doubt- ful . Things have an ugly look still . No matter how many centuries of culture have ...
... Boston . He is now in great spirits ; thinks he shall reach it yet ; thinks he shall bot- . tle the wave . It is however getting a little doubt- ful . Things have an ugly look still . No matter how many centuries of culture have ...
Page 204
... Boston , as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue . For history there is great choice of ways to bring the student through early Rome . If he can read Livy , he has a good book ; but ...
... Boston , as of reading all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue . For history there is great choice of ways to bring the student through early Rome . If he can read Livy , he has a good book ; but ...
Page 220
... how attractive is the whole litera- ture of the Roman de la Rose , the Fabliaux , and the gaie science of the French Troubadours ! Yet who in Boston has time for that ? But one of our company shall undertake it , shall study and 220 BOOKS.
... how attractive is the whole litera- ture of the Roman de la Rose , the Fabliaux , and the gaie science of the French Troubadours ! Yet who in Boston has time for that ? But one of our company shall undertake it , shall study and 220 BOOKS.
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Æschylus appears astronomy beauty Ben Jonson better Boston called character charm civil club conversation courage dæmons delight Demosthenes divine earth eloquence Emerson England essay eternal experience fact feel genius give Goethe Greek Hafiz heard heart heaven hour human imagination immortality inspiration intel intellect Jotun journal labor learned lecture live look manners Margaret Fuller master mind moral Nachiketas nations Nature never Odoacer orator Over-Soul passage persons Phi Beta Kappa Pindar plants Plato Plutarch poem poet poetry RALPH WALDO EMERSON rhyme Saadi scholar seems sense sentence sentiment Shakspeare society Socrates solitude song soul speak speech spirit talent things thou thought tion truth ture verse Viasa voice whilst wise wish words write wrote young youth Zoroaster