The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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Page 175
... Persian , nor Mem- phian , nor Teutonic , nor local at all , but was common lime and silex and water and sunlight , the heat of the blood and the heaving of the lungs ; it was that clay which thou heldest but now in thy foolish hands ...
... Persian , nor Mem- phian , nor Teutonic , nor local at all , but was common lime and silex and water and sunlight , the heat of the blood and the heaving of the lungs ; it was that clay which thou heldest but now in thy foolish hands ...
Page 194
... Persians , Confucius of the Chinese , Cervantes of the Spaniards ; so , perhaps , the human mind would be a gainer if all the second- ary writers were lost , say , in England , all but Shakspeare , Milton and Bacon , —through the ...
... Persians , Confucius of the Chinese , Cervantes of the Spaniards ; so , perhaps , the human mind would be a gainer if all the second- ary writers were lost , say , in England , all but Shakspeare , Milton and Bacon , —through the ...
Page 217
... and critical , have the imagi- native element . The Greek fables , the Persian history ( Firdusi ) , ' the Younger Edda of the Scandinavians , the Chronicle of the Cid , the poem of Dante , the Sonnets of Michel Angelo , BOOKS 217.
... and critical , have the imagi- native element . The Greek fables , the Persian history ( Firdusi ) , ' the Younger Edda of the Scandinavians , the Chronicle of the Cid , the poem of Dante , the Sonnets of Michel Angelo , BOOKS 217.
Page 317
... to a century and dwarfs an age to an hour . Saadi found in a mosque at Damascus an old Persian of a hundred and fifty years , who was dying , and was saying to him- self , " I said , coming into the world OLD AGE 317.
... to a century and dwarfs an age to an hour . Saadi found in a mosque at Damascus an old Persian of a hundred and fifty years , who was dying , and was saying to him- self , " I said , coming into the world OLD AGE 317.
Page 344
... Persian Poetry , " which were included in the next volume , Letters and Social Aims . When the volume reached England it brought back this response from his old friend : APRIL 6TH , 1870 . The little Book " I read here , . . with great ...
... Persian Poetry , " which were included in the next volume , Letters and Social Aims . When the volume reached England it brought back this response from his old friend : APRIL 6TH , 1870 . The little Book " I read here , . . with great ...
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