The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 11-12Wm. H. Wise, 1911 - 416 pages |
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Page 143
... Nature , her great periods , is all we observe in them . Who cares for oppressing whites , or oppressed blacks , twenty centuries ago , more than for bad dreams ? Eaters and food are in the harmony of Nature ; and there too is the germ ...
... Nature , her great periods , is all we observe in them . Who cares for oppressing whites , or oppressed blacks , twenty centuries ago , more than for bad dreams ? Eaters and food are in the harmony of Nature ; and there too is the germ ...
Page 154
... nature and office of war . We see it is the subject of all history ; that it has been the principal employment of the most con- spicuous men ; that it is at this moment , the delight of half the world , of almost all young and ignorant ...
... nature and office of war . We see it is the subject of all history ; that it has been the principal employment of the most con- spicuous men ; that it is at this moment , the delight of half the world , of almost all young and ignorant ...
Page 155
Ralph Waldo Emerson. * L beneficent principle , which Nature had deeply at heart ? What is that principle ? It is self- help . Nature implants with life the instinct of self - help , perpetual struggle to be , to resist opposition , to ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. * L beneficent principle , which Nature had deeply at heart ? What is that principle ? It is self- help . Nature implants with life the instinct of self - help , perpetual struggle to be , to resist opposition , to ...
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... nature , and how idle are all attempts to shake ourselves free from it . We are all conservatives , half Whig , half Democrat , in our essences : and might as well try to jump out of our skins as to escape from our Whiggery . There are ...
... nature , and how idle are all attempts to shake ourselves free from it . We are all conservatives , half Whig , half Democrat , in our essences : and might as well try to jump out of our skins as to escape from our Whiggery . There are ...
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... Nature is not so helpless but it can rid itself at last of every wrong . But the spasms of Nature are centuries and ages , and will tax the faith of short - lived men . Slowly , slowly the Avenger comes , but comes surely . The proverbs ...
... Nature is not so helpless but it can rid itself at last of every wrong . But the spasms of Nature are centuries and ages , and will tax the faith of short - lived men . Slowly , slowly the Avenger comes , but comes surely . The proverbs ...
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