Essays, Volume 1Houghton Mifflin, 1903 - 445 pages |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. WHA PRUDENCE HAT right have I to write on Prudence , whereof I have little , and that of the negative sort ? My prudence consists in avoid- ing and going without , not in the inventing of means and methods , not in ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. WHA PRUDENCE HAT right have I to write on Prudence , whereof I have little , and that of the negative sort ? My prudence consists in avoid- ing and going without , not in the inventing of means and methods , not in ...
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... prudence or law of shows recognizes the co - presence of other laws and knows that its own office is subaltern ; knows that it is surface and not centre where it works . Prudence is false when detached . It is legitimate when it is the ...
... prudence or law of shows recognizes the co - presence of other laws and knows that its own office is subaltern ; knows that it is surface and not centre where it works . Prudence is false when detached . It is legitimate when it is the ...
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... prudence , which is a de- votion to matter , as if we possessed no other faculties than the palate , the nose , the touch , the eye and ear ; a prudence which adores the Rule of Three , which never subscribes , which never gives , which ...
... prudence , which is a de- votion to matter , as if we possessed no other faculties than the palate , the nose , the touch , the eye and ear ; a prudence which adores the Rule of Three , which never subscribes , which never gives , which ...
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