EssaysPhoemixx Classics Ebooks, 2021 M09 26 - 333 pages Essays Ralph Waldo Emerson - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Kazin observes in his Introduction, "was a great writer who turned the essay into a form all his own." His celebrated essays--the twelve published in Essays: First Series (1841) and eight in Essays: Second Series (1844)--are here presented for the first time in an authoritative one-volume edition, which incorporates all the changes and corrections Emerson made after their initial publication. |
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... one of those fables which out of an unknown antiquity convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods, in the beginning, divided Man into men, that he might be more helpful to himself; just as the hand was divided into fingers, the better.
... one of those fables which out of an unknown antiquity convey an unlooked-for wisdom, that the gods, in the beginning, divided Man into men, that he might be more helpful to himself; just as the hand was divided into fingers, the better.
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... nerves and his nap , to spare any action in which he can partake . It is pearls and rubies to his discourse . Drudgery , calamity , calamity , exasperation , want , are instructors in eloquence and wisdom. The true scholar grudges every.
... nerves and his nap , to spare any action in which he can partake . It is pearls and rubies to his discourse . Drudgery , calamity , calamity , exasperation , want , are instructors in eloquence and wisdom. The true scholar grudges every.
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... wisdom. So is there no fact, no event, in our private history, which shall not, sooner or later, lose its adhesive, inert form, and astonish us by soaring from our body into the empyrean. [48] Cradle and infancy, school and playground ...
... wisdom. So is there no fact, no event, in our private history, which shall not, sooner or later, lose its adhesive, inert form, and astonish us by soaring from our body into the empyrean. [48] Cradle and infancy, school and playground ...
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... wisdom. I will not shut myself out of this globe of action, and transplant an oak into a flower-pot, there to hunger and pine; nor trust the revenue of some single faculty, and exhaust one vein of thought, much like those Savoyards, [51] ...
... wisdom. I will not shut myself out of this globe of action, and transplant an oak into a flower-pot, there to hunger and pine; nor trust the revenue of some single faculty, and exhaust one vein of thought, much like those Savoyards, [51] ...
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... wisdom. Men suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself, [137] as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. There is ...
... wisdom. Men suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself, [137] as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. There is ...
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