The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 11-12Wm. H. Wise, 1911 - 416 pages |
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... Free Public Library . The oration before the New England Society of New York in 1870 , printed by them in their recent volume , is not included , as most of the matter may be found in the Historical Discourse at Concord vi PREFACE.
... Free Public Library . The oration before the New England Society of New York in 1870 , printed by them in their recent volume , is not included , as most of the matter may be found in the Historical Discourse at Concord vi PREFACE.
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... Society of Quakers denied the authority of the rite altogether , and gave good reasons for disusing it . I allude to these facts only to show that , so far from the Supper being a tradition in which men are fully agreed , there has ...
... Society of Quakers denied the authority of the rite altogether , and gave good reasons for disusing it . I allude to these facts only to show that , so far from the Supper being a tradition in which men are fully agreed , there has ...
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... the great meadows which , in ages , it had formed . But the little society of men who now , for a few years , fish in this river , plough the fields it washes , mow the grass and reap the corn , shortly shall hurry from its banks.
... the great meadows which , in ages , it had formed . But the little society of men who now , for a few years , fish in this river , plough the fields it washes , mow the grass and reap the corn , shortly shall hurry from its banks.
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... society were reached . Here the rich gave counsel , but the poor also ; and moreover , the just and the unjust . He is ill informed who expects , on run- ning down the Town Records for two hundred years , to find a church of saints , a ...
... society were reached . Here the rich gave counsel , but the poor also ; and moreover , the just and the unjust . He is ill informed who expects , on run- ning down the Town Records for two hundred years , to find a church of saints , a ...
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... fami- lies ; in your cornfields ; and in society . We will not hide your honorable gray hairs under per- ishing laurel - leaves , but the eye of affection and veneration follows you . You are set apart- and forever 76 HISTORICAL DISCOURSE.
... fami- lies ; in your cornfields ; and in society . We will not hide your honorable gray hairs under per- ishing laurel - leaves , but the eye of affection and veneration follows you . You are set apart- and forever 76 HISTORICAL DISCOURSE.
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