The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo EmersonРипол Классик, 1929 |
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Page 17
... hears From a log cabin stream Beethoven's notes On the piano, played with master's hand. ' Well done! ' he cries; ' the bear is kept at bay, The lynx, the rattlesnake, the flood, the fire: All the fierce enemies, ague, hunger, cold ...
... hears From a log cabin stream Beethoven's notes On the piano, played with master's hand. ' Well done! ' he cries; ' the bear is kept at bay, The lynx, the rattlesnake, the flood, the fire: All the fierce enemies, ague, hunger, cold ...
Page 27
... Hear the definition which Kant gives of moral conduct: “Act always so that the immediate motive of thy will may become a universal rule for all intelligent beings.” Civilization depends on morality. Everything good in man leans on what ...
... Hear the definition which Kant gives of moral conduct: “Act always so that the immediate motive of thy will may become a universal rule for all intelligent beings.” Civilization depends on morality. Everything good in man leans on what ...
Page 50
... hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet. The feeling of all great poets has accorded with this. They found the verse, not made it. The muse ...
... hear it, it sounds rather as if copied out of some invisible tablet in the Eternal mind than as if arbitrarily composed by the poet. The feeling of all great poets has accorded with this. They found the verse, not made it. The muse ...
Page 62
... hear worse orators than them— selves.' But this lust to speak marks the universal feeling of the energy of the engine, and the euriosity men feel to touch the springs. Of all the musical instruments on which men play, a popular assembly ...
... hear worse orators than them— selves.' But this lust to speak marks the universal feeling of the energy of the engine, and the euriosity men feel to touch the springs. Of all the musical instruments on which men play, a popular assembly ...
Page 67
... hear their own native“ language for the first time, and leap to hear it.' But all these several audiences, each above each, which successively appear to greet the variety Of style and topic, are really composed Out of the same persons ...
... hear their own native“ language for the first time, and leap to hear it.' But all these several audiences, each above each, which successively appear to greet the variety Of style and topic, are really composed Out of the same persons ...
Contents
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35 | |
61 | |
DOMESTIC LIFE | 101 |
FARMING | 137 |
WORKS AND DAYS | 157 |
BOOKS | 198 |
SUCCESS | 281 |
OLD AGE 313 | 318 |
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