The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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Page 10
... sense and experience . " A man is born by the side of his father , and there he remains . " A man must be clothed with society , or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty , as of a displaced and unfurnished member . He is to be ...
... sense and experience . " A man is born by the side of his father , and there he remains . " A man must be clothed with society , or we shall feel a certain bareness and poverty , as of a displaced and unfurnished member . He is to be ...
Page 19
... sense of honor and taste . In the hesitation to define what it is , we usually suggest it by negations . A nation that has no clothing , no iron , no alphabet , no mar- riage , no arts of peace , no abstract thought , we call barbarous ...
... sense of honor and taste . In the hesitation to define what it is , we usually suggest it by negations . A nation that has no clothing , no iron , no alphabet , no mar- riage , no arts of peace , no abstract thought , we call barbarous ...
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... sense of the impor- tance of this step . " There was once a giantess who had a daughter , and the child saw a hus- bandman ploughing in the field . Then she ran and picked him up with her finger and thumb , and put him and his plough ...
... sense of the impor- tance of this step . " There was once a giantess who had a daughter , and the child saw a hus- bandman ploughing in the field . Then she ran and picked him up with her finger and thumb , and put him and his plough ...
Page 37
... sense of the other . They are sub- lime when seen as emanations of a Necessity contradistinguished from the vulgar Fate by being instant and alive , and dissolving man as well as his works in its flowing beneficence . This influence is ...
... sense of the other . They are sub- lime when seen as emanations of a Necessity contradistinguished from the vulgar Fate by being instant and alive , and dissolving man as well as his works in its flowing beneficence . This influence is ...
Page 38
... sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul , to be spoken , to be done . What is in , will out . It struggles to the birth . Speech is a great plea- sure , and action a great pleasure ; they cannot be foreborne . The ...
... sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul , to be spoken , to be done . What is in , will out . It struggles to the birth . Speech is a great plea- sure , and action a great pleasure ; they cannot be foreborne . The ...
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