The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: English traitsHoughton Mifflin, 1903 |
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... RACE V. ABILITY 44 74 VI . MANNERS 102 VII . TRUTH 116 VIII . CHARACTER 127 IX . COCKAYNE 144 X. WEALTH 153 XI . ARISTOCRACY 172 XII . UNIVERSITIES 199 XIII . RELIGION 214 XIV . LITERATURE XV . THE TIMES XVI . STONEHENGE 232 261 273 ...
... RACE V. ABILITY 44 74 VI . MANNERS 102 VII . TRUTH 116 VIII . CHARACTER 127 IX . COCKAYNE 144 X. WEALTH 153 XI . ARISTOCRACY 172 XII . UNIVERSITIES 199 XIII . RELIGION 214 XIV . LITERATURE XV . THE TIMES XVI . STONEHENGE 232 261 273 ...
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... race , and still we fly for our lives . The short- est sea - line from Boston to Liverpool is 2850 miles . This a steamer keeps , and saves 150 miles . A sailing ship can never go in a shorter line than 3000 , and usually it is much ...
... race , and still we fly for our lives . The short- est sea - line from Boston to Liverpool is 2850 miles . This a steamer keeps , and saves 150 miles . A sailing ship can never go in a shorter line than 3000 , and usually it is much ...
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... his- tory of our race is so recent , if the roar of the ocean is silencing our traditions . A rising of the sea , such as has been observed , say an inch in a century , from east to west on the land VOYAGE TO ENGLAND 29.
... his- tory of our race is so recent , if the roar of the ocean is silencing our traditions . A rising of the sea , such as has been observed , say an inch in a century , from east to west on the land VOYAGE TO ENGLAND 29.
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... race has turned every rood of land to its best use , has found all the capabilities , the arable soil , the quarriable rock , the highways , the byways , the fords , the navigable waters ; and the new arts of intercourse meet you every ...
... race has turned every rood of land to its best use , has found all the capabilities , the arable soil , the quarriable rock , the highways , the byways , the fords , the navigable waters ; and the new arts of intercourse meet you every ...
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... were a design from the begin- ning to elaborate a bigger Birmingham . Nature held counsel with herself and said , ' My Romans are gone . To build my new empire , I will choose a rude race , all masculine , with brutish 42 ENGLISH TRAITS.
... were a design from the begin- ning to elaborate a bigger Birmingham . Nature held counsel with herself and said , ' My Romans are gone . To build my new empire , I will choose a rude race , all masculine , with brutish 42 ENGLISH TRAITS.
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Page 401 - Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw...
Page 110 - Neither high-born nobleman, knight, nor esquire was here ; but many of these humble sons of the hills had a consciousness that the land, which they walked over and tilled, had for more than five hundred years been possessed by men of their name and blood...
Page 358 - Like tidings to King Henry came Within as short a space, That Percy of Northumberland Was slain in Chevy-Chase: "Now God be with him...
Page 15 - Carlyle was a man from his youth, an author who did not need to hide from his readers, and as absolute a man of the world, unknown and exiled on that hill-farm, as if holding on his own terms what is best in London.
Page 98 - The greater part, in value, of the wealth now existing in England has been produced by human hands within the last twelve months.
Page 352 - tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at : I am not what I am.
Page 368 - Celebrated Trials connected with the Aristocracy in the Relations of Private Life.
Page 349 - With blare of bugle, clamour of men, Roll of cannon and clash of arms, And England pouring on her foes. Such a war had such a close.
Page 109 - Every class has its noble and tender examples. Domesticity is the taproot which enables the nation to branch wide and high. The motive and end of their trade and empire is to guard the independence and privacy of their homes.
Page 326 - Practical Christianity, or an Account of the Holiness which the Gospel enjoins." Page 8, note 2. A friend informs me that the following hexameters of Julius Caesar, the only specimen of his verse that we have, are found in an extract from the life of Terentius by Suetonius, preserved by Donatus in the introduction to his commentary on this poet.