Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 45
... give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong . There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold ; for them I will go to prison , if need be ; but your miscellaneous popular ...
... give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong . There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity I am bought and sold ; for them I will go to prison , if need be ; but your miscellaneous popular ...
Page 46
Ralph Waldo Emerson. I sometimes succumb and give the dollar , it is a wicked dollar which by and by I shall have the man- hood to withold . - as Virtues are , in the popular estimate , rather the ex- ception than the rule . There is the ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. I sometimes succumb and give the dollar , it is a wicked dollar which by and by I shall have the man- hood to withold . - as Virtues are , in the popular estimate , rather the ex- ception than the rule . There is the ...
Page 63
... give them by a weak curios- ity . No man can come near me but through my act . " What we love that we have , but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love . " - If we cannot at once rise to the sanctities of obe- dience and faith , let ...
... give them by a weak curios- ity . No man can come near me but through my act . " What we love that we have , but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love . " - If we cannot at once rise to the sanctities of obe- dience and faith , let ...
Page 64
... truth , it will bring us out safe at last . But so you may give these friends pain . Yes , but I cannot sell my liberty and my power , to save their sensibility . - Besides , all persons have their moments of reason , 64 ESSAY II .
... truth , it will bring us out safe at last . But so you may give these friends pain . Yes , but I cannot sell my liberty and my power , to save their sensibility . - Besides , all persons have their moments of reason , 64 ESSAY II .
Page 85
... gives it the lie . Every ingenuous and aspiring soul leaves the doc- trine behind him in his own experience ; and all men feel sometimes the falsehood which they cannot de- monstrate . For men are wiser than they know . That which they ...
... gives it the lie . Every ingenuous and aspiring soul leaves the doc- trine behind him in his own experience ; and all men feel sometimes the falsehood which they cannot de- monstrate . For men are wiser than they know . That which they ...
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