Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page 63
... fear : " This country is filling up with thousands and millions of voters , and you must educate them to keep them from our throats . " We do not believe that any education , any system of philosophy , any influence of genius , will ...
... fear : " This country is filling up with thousands and millions of voters , and you must educate them to keep them from our throats . " We do not believe that any education , any system of philosophy , any influence of genius , will ...
Page 67
... fear the transalpine good , so that his fear , his coldness , his custom may be broken up like frag- ments of ice , melted and carried away in the great stream of good will . Do you ask my aid ? I also wish to be a benefactor . I wish ...
... fear the transalpine good , so that his fear , his coldness , his custom may be broken up like frag- ments of ice , melted and carried away in the great stream of good will . Do you ask my aid ? I also wish to be a benefactor . I wish ...
Page 76
... fear , admiration , pity ; thence comes conversation , competition , persuasion , cities , and war . are supplementary to the primary teaching of the soul . youth we are mad for persons . Childhood and youth see all the world in them ...
... fear , admiration , pity ; thence comes conversation , competition , persuasion , cities , and war . are supplementary to the primary teaching of the soul . youth we are mad for persons . Childhood and youth see all the world in them ...
Page 84
... fears , and adjourn to the sure revelation of time , the solution of his private riddles . He is sure that his welfare is dear to the heart of being . In the presence of law to his mind , he is overflowed with a reliance so universal ...
... fears , and adjourn to the sure revelation of time , the solution of his private riddles . He is sure that his welfare is dear to the heart of being . In the presence of law to his mind , he is overflowed with a reliance so universal ...
Page 88
... Fear not the new generalisation . Does the fact look crass and material , threatening to degrade thy theory of spirit ? Resist it not ; it goes to refine and raise thy theory of matter just as much . There are no fixtures to men if we ...
... Fear not the new generalisation . Does the fact look crass and material , threatening to degrade thy theory of spirit ? Resist it not ; it goes to refine and raise thy theory of matter just as much . There are no fixtures to men if we ...
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action appear beauty behold believe Ben Jonson better Celt character church conversation divine doctrine Emerson England English Ernest Rhys eternal evil fact faith fear feel force genius give Goethe Greek Havelock Ellis hear heart heaven honour hour human idea individual inspiration instinct intellect justice labour live look man's manual labour Margaret Fuller means Milton mind moral nations nature never noble numbers opinion perfect persons Phidias philosophy Phocion Plato poet poetry political present race reform relations religion religious Richard of Devizes Saxon scholar secret seems sense sentiment Shakespeare society soul speak spirit stand sublime T. W. Rolleston talent thee things thou thought tion to-day true truth universe virtue WALTER SCOTT whilst whole wisdom wise wish words write