The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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Page 94
... character is very properly a loss of attraction . The preacher enumerates his classes of men and I do not find my place therein ; I suspect then that no man does . Everything is my cousin ; and whilst he speaks things , I feel that he ...
... character is very properly a loss of attraction . The preacher enumerates his classes of men and I do not find my place therein ; I suspect then that no man does . Everything is my cousin ; and whilst he speaks things , I feel that he ...
Page 97
... character and insight . Let him see that his speech is not differenced from action ; that when he has spoken he has not done nothing , nor done wrong , but has cleared his own skirts , has engaged himself to wholesome exertion . Let him ...
... character and insight . Let him see that his speech is not differenced from action ; that when he has spoken he has not done nothing , nor done wrong , but has cleared his own skirts , has engaged himself to wholesome exertion . Let him ...
Page 104
... character ; uncles , aunts , grand- sires , grandams , fall an easy prey : he conforms to nobody , all conform to him ; all caper and make mouths and babble and chirrup to him . On the strongest shoulders he rides , and pulls the 104 ...
... character ; uncles , aunts , grand- sires , grandams , fall an easy prey : he conforms to nobody , all conform to him ; all caper and make mouths and babble and chirrup to him . On the strongest shoulders he rides , and pulls the 104 ...
Page 107
... character and your natural history ; who could explain your mis- fortunes , your fevers , your debts , your temper- ament , your habits of thought , your tastes , and , in every explanation , not sever you from the whole DOMESTIC LIFE 107.
... character and your natural history ; who could explain your mis- fortunes , your fevers , your debts , your temper- ament , your habits of thought , your tastes , and , in every explanation , not sever you from the whole DOMESTIC LIFE 107.
Page 108
... character and hope of the time be consulted ? These facts are , to be sure , harder to read . It is easier to count the census , or compute the square extent of a territory , to criticise its pol- ity , books , art , than to come to the ...
... character and hope of the time be consulted ? These facts are , to be sure , harder to read . It is easier to count the census , or compute the square extent of a territory , to criticise its pol- ity , books , art , than to come to the ...
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