The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo EmersonРипол Классик, 1929 |
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Page 7
... seems entitled to marry; for how can he protect a woman, who cannot protect himself? ' We pray to be conventional. But the wa Heaven takes care you shall not be, if therelii anything good in you. Dante was very bad company, and was ...
... seems entitled to marry; for how can he protect a woman, who cannot protect himself? ' We pray to be conventional. But the wa Heaven takes care you shall not be, if therelii anything good in you. Dante was very bad company, and was ...
Page 8
... seem a nebula of united light, yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve; and the clearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs. The cooperation is involuntary, and is put upon us by the Genius of Life, who reserves ...
... seem a nebula of united light, yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve; and the clearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs. The cooperation is involuntary, and is put upon us by the Genius of Life, who reserves ...
Page 12
... seem a power incredible, as if God should raise the dead. The recluse witnesses what others perform by their aid, with a kind of fear. It is as much out of his possibility as the prowess of Cteur-de-Lion, or an Irishman's day's work on ...
... seem a power incredible, as if God should raise the dead. The recluse witnesses what others perform by their aid, with a kind of fear. It is as much out of his possibility as the prowess of Cteur-de-Lion, or an Irishman's day's work on ...
Page 37
... seem to feel, and to labor to express, the identity of their law. They are rays of one sun; they translate each into a new language the sense of the other. They are sublime when seen as emanations of a Necessity contradistinguished from ...
... seem to feel, and to labor to express, the identity of their law. They are rays of one sun; they translate each into a new language the sense of the other. They are sublime when seen as emanations of a Necessity contradistinguished from ...
Page 42
... seems to have no option about his tools, but merely the necessity to learn from Nature what will fit best, as if he were fitting a screw or a door. Beneath a necessity thus almighty, what is artificial in man's life seems insignificant ...
... seems to have no option about his tools, but merely the necessity to learn from Nature what will fit best, as if he were fitting a screw or a door. Beneath a necessity thus almighty, what is artificial in man's life seems insignificant ...
Contents
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DOMESTIC LIFE | 101 |
FARMING | 137 |
WORKS AND DAYS | 157 |
BOOKS | 198 |
SUCCESS | 281 |
OLD AGE 313 | 318 |
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