The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo EmersonРипол Классик, 1929 |
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Page 7
... sentence. 'Tis worse, and tragic, that no man is fit for societyl who has fine traits. At a distance he is admired, but bring him hand to hand, he is a cripple.'| One protects himself by solitude, and one by courtesy, and one by an acid ...
... sentence. 'Tis worse, and tragic, that no man is fit for societyl who has fine traits. At a distance he is admired, but bring him hand to hand, he is a cripple.'| One protects himself by solitude, and one by courtesy, and one by an acid ...
Page 14
... sentence: we have seen him in different company. Assort your party, or invite none. Put Stubbs and Coleridge, Quintilian and Aunt Miriam, into pairs, and you make them all wretched. 'T is an extempore Sing-Sing built in a parlor. Leave ...
... sentence: we have seen him in different company. Assort your party, or invite none. Put Stubbs and Coleridge, Quintilian and Aunt Miriam, into pairs, and you make them all wretched. 'T is an extempore Sing-Sing built in a parlor. Leave ...
Page 64
... sentence worthy of attention, short and contorted, so that he who converses with him will appear to be in no respect superior to a boy." Plato's defini— tion of rhetoric is, “ the art of ruling the minds of men.” The Koran says, “A ...
... sentence worthy of attention, short and contorted, so that he who converses with him will appear to be in no respect superior to a boy." Plato's defini— tion of rhetoric is, “ the art of ruling the minds of men.” The Koran says, “A ...
Page 74
... sentence by sentence, matter neither better nor worse than what is there printed, will be very impressive to our easily pleased population. These talkers are of that class who prosper, like the celebrated schoolmaster, by being only one ...
... sentence by sentence, matter neither better nor worse than what is there printed, will be very impressive to our easily pleased population. These talkers are of that class who prosper, like the celebrated schoolmaster, by being only one ...
Page 88
... sentence or two which hit the mark. His sentences are not always finished to the eye, but are finished to the mind. The sentences are involved, but a solid proposition is set forth, a true distinction is drawn. They come from and they ...
... sentence or two which hit the mark. His sentences are not always finished to the eye, but are finished to the mind. The sentences are involved, but a solid proposition is set forth, a true distinction is drawn. They come from and they ...
Contents
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61 | |
DOMESTIC LIFE | 101 |
FARMING | 137 |
WORKS AND DAYS | 157 |
BOOKS | 198 |
SUCCESS | 281 |
OLD AGE 313 | 318 |
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