The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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Page 4
... never detain the eye for a moment . He went to Vienna , to Smyrna , to London . In all the variety of costumes , a carnival , a kaleidoscope of clothes , to his horror he could never discover a man in the street who own - wore anything ...
... never detain the eye for a moment . He went to Vienna , to Smyrna , to London . In all the variety of costumes , a carnival , a kaleidoscope of clothes , to his horror he could never discover a man in the street who own - wore anything ...
Page 11
... Never his lands or his rents , but the power to charm the disguised soul that sits veiled under this bearded and that rosy visage is his rent and ration . His products are as needful as those of the baker or the weaver . Society cannot ...
... Never his lands or his rents , but the power to charm the disguised soul that sits veiled under this bearded and that rosy visage is his rent and ration . His products are as needful as those of the baker or the weaver . Society cannot ...
Page 27
... never tires of turn- ing his wheel ; the river is good - natured , and never hints an objection . We had letters to send : couriers could not go fast enough nor far enough ; broke their wagons , foundered their horses ; bad roads in ...
... never tires of turn- ing his wheel ; the river is good - natured , and never hints an objection . We had letters to send : couriers could not go fast enough nor far enough ; broke their wagons , foundered their horses ; bad roads in ...
Page 29
... never go out of their road . We are dapper little busybodies and run this way and that way superserviceably ; but they swerve never from their foreordained paths , — neither the sun , nor the moon , nor a bubble of air , nor a mote of ...
... never go out of their road . We are dapper little busybodies and run this way and that way superserviceably ; but they swerve never from their foreordained paths , — neither the sun , nor the moon , nor a bubble of air , nor a mote of ...
Page 55
... never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being . They come to serve his actual wants , never to please his fancy . These arts have their origin always in some enthusi- asm , ART 55.
... never was in the power of any man or any community to call the arts into being . They come to serve his actual wants , never to please his fancy . These arts have their origin always in some enthusi- asm , ART 55.
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