The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 11-12Wm. H. Wise, 1911 - 416 pages |
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Page 42
... human race in this country , over all other plantations in history , owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power . It is vain to look for the in- ventor . No man made them . Each ...
... human race in this country , over all other plantations in history , owe themselves mainly to the new subdivisions of the State into small corporations of land and power . It is vain to look for the in- ventor . No man made them . Each ...
Page 77
... human race . To you belongs a better badge than stars and ribbons . This prospering country is your ornament , and this expanding nation is multiplying your praise with millions of tongues . ' The agitating events of those days were ...
... human race . To you belongs a better badge than stars and ribbons . This prospering country is your ornament , and this expanding nation is multiplying your praise with millions of tongues . ' The agitating events of those days were ...
Page 94
... human nature shall be consummated . One circumstance lessens the reluctance with which I intrude at this time on your attention my conviction that the government ought to be admonished of a new historical fact , which the discussion of ...
... human nature shall be consummated . One circumstance lessens the reluctance with which I intrude at this time on your attention my conviction that the government ought to be admonished of a new historical fact , which the discussion of ...
Page 103
... human affairs must work and ripen , spite of whips and plantation laws and West Indian interest . Con- science rolled on its pillow , and could not sleep . We sympathize very tenderly here with the poor aggrieved planter , of whom so ...
... human affairs must work and ripen , spite of whips and plantation laws and West Indian interest . Con- science rolled on its pillow , and could not sleep . We sympathize very tenderly here with the poor aggrieved planter , of whom so ...
Page 118
... human being in his absolute control . We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them , and seem to measure their own sense of well- being , not by what they do , but ...
... human being in his absolute control . We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them , and seem to measure their own sense of well- being , not by what they do , but ...
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