The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo EmersonРипол Классик, 1929 |
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... stand on his glass tripod if he would keep his electricity. Even Swedenborg, whose theory of the universe is based on affection, and who reprobates to weariness the danger and vice of pure intellect, is constrained to make an ...
... stand on his glass tripod if he would keep his electricity. Even Swedenborg, whose theory of the universe is based on affection, and who reprobates to weariness the danger and vice of pure intellect, is constrained to make an ...
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... stand to them in public. But let us not be the victims of words. Society and solitude are deceptive names. It is not the circumstance of seeing more or fewer people, but the readiness of sympathy, that imports; and a sound mind will ...
... stand to them in public. But let us not be the victims of words. Society and solitude are deceptive names. It is not the circumstance of seeing more or fewer people, but the readiness of sympathy, that imports; and a sound mind will ...
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... stand any one of these tests,—a country where knowledge cannot be difl'used without perils of mob law and statute law; where speech is not free; where the post-office is violated, mail-bags opened and letters tampered with; where public ...
... stand any one of these tests,—a country where knowledge cannot be difl'used without perils of mob law and statute law; where speech is not free; where the post-office is violated, mail-bags opened and letters tampered with; where public ...
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... the old Romans,-—any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight, sickness, or odd appearance in the street. The first comers gather round in a circle, those behind stand on tiptoe, and 54. ART.
... the old Romans,-—any one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see any fight, sickness, or odd appearance in the street. The first comers gather round in a circle, those behind stand on tiptoe, and 54. ART.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. round in a circle, those behind stand on tiptoe, and farther back they climb on fences or window-sills, and so make a cup of which the ob— ject of attention occupies the hollow area. The architect put benches in this ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. round in a circle, those behind stand on tiptoe, and farther back they climb on fences or window-sills, and so make a cup of which the ob— ject of attention occupies the hollow area. The architect put benches in this ...
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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