Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page 8
... heart of the world , he said , wonderful only from the mass of human beings . He liked the huge machine . Each keeps its own round . The baker's boy brings muffins to the window at a fixed hour every day , and that is all the Londoner ...
... heart of the world , he said , wonderful only from the mass of human beings . He liked the huge machine . Each keeps its own round . The baker's boy brings muffins to the window at a fixed hour every day , and that is all the Londoner ...
Page 12
... heart of Illinois , and I found abundant points of resemblance between the Germans of the Hercynian forest , and our Hoosiers , Suckers , and Badgers of the American woods . ance . I But whilst race works immortally to keep its own , it ...
... heart of Illinois , and I found abundant points of resemblance between the Germans of the Hercynian forest , and our Hoosiers , Suckers , and Badgers of the American woods . ance . I But whilst race works immortally to keep its own , it ...
Page 21
... heart . The last term of insult is " a beggar . " Nelson said , " the want of fortune is a crime which I can never get over . " Sydney Smith said , " poverty is infamous in England . " And one of their recent writers speaks , in ...
... heart . The last term of insult is " a beggar . " Nelson said , " the want of fortune is a crime which I can never get over . " Sydney Smith said , " poverty is infamous in England . " And one of their recent writers speaks , in ...
Page 43
... heart . Thackeray finds that God has made no allowance for the poor thing in his universe ; more's the pity , he thinks : but ' tis not for us to be wiser : we must renounce ideals , and accept London . The brilliant Macaulay , who ...
... heart . Thackeray finds that God has made no allowance for the poor thing in his universe ; more's the pity , he thinks : but ' tis not for us to be wiser : we must renounce ideals , and accept London . The brilliant Macaulay , who ...
Page 46
... heart as well as to the logic of creation . But English science puts humanity to the door . It wants the connection which is the test of genius . The science is false by not being poetic . It isolates the reptile or mollusk it assumes ...
... heart as well as to the logic of creation . But English science puts humanity to the door . It wants the connection which is the test of genius . The science is false by not being poetic . It isolates the reptile or mollusk it assumes ...
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