Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 95
... labor as a pen- knife for an axe . The so - called " practical men sneer at speculative men , as if , because they specu- late or see , they could do nothing . I have heard it said that the clergy , who are always , more uni- versally ...
... labor as a pen- knife for an axe . The so - called " practical men sneer at speculative men , as if , because they specu- late or see , they could do nothing . I have heard it said that the clergy , who are always , more uni- versally ...
Page 100
... labor to every citizen . There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade , for learned as well as for unlearned hands . And labor is everywhere welcome ; always we are invited to work ; only be this limitation observed , that a man shall ...
... labor to every citizen . There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade , for learned as well as for unlearned hands . And labor is everywhere welcome ; always we are invited to work ; only be this limitation observed , that a man shall ...
Page 170
... of the citizen ! Fatal to the man of letters , fatal to man , is the lust of display , the seeming that unmakes our being . A mistake of the main end to which they - - labor is incident to literary men , who 170 LITERARY ETHICS .
... of the citizen ! Fatal to the man of letters , fatal to man , is the lust of display , the seeming that unmakes our being . A mistake of the main end to which they - - labor is incident to literary men , who 170 LITERARY ETHICS .
Page 171
Addresses, and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson. - - labor is incident to literary men , who , dealing with the organ of language , the subtlest , strongest , and longest - lived of man's creations , and only fitly used as the weapon of ...
Addresses, and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson. - - labor is incident to literary men , who , dealing with the organ of language , the subtlest , strongest , and longest - lived of man's creations , and only fitly used as the weapon of ...
Page 178
... labor which your necessi- ties or the necessities of others impose . Gentlemen , I have ventured to offer you these considerations upon the scholar's place and hope , because I thought that standing , as many of you now do , on the ...
... labor which your necessi- ties or the necessities of others impose . Gentlemen , I have ventured to offer you these considerations upon the scholar's place and hope , because I thought that standing , as many of you now do , on the ...
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