Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 85
Ralph Waldo Emerson. - • to have leave to pray and praise ? to love and serve men ? Why , that they can do now . The ... leaves the doc- trine behind him in his own experience ; and all men feel sometimes the falsehood which they cannot ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. - • to have leave to pray and praise ? to love and serve men ? Why , that they can do now . The ... leaves the doc- trine behind him in his own experience ; and all men feel sometimes the falsehood which they cannot ...
Page 93
... leave it bottomless ; to get a one end , without an other end . The soul says , Eat ; the body would feast . The soul says , The man and woman shall be one flesh and one soul ; the body would join the flesh only . The soul says , Have ...
... leave it bottomless ; to get a one end , without an other end . The soul says , Eat ; the body would feast . The soul says , The man and woman shall be one flesh and one soul ; the body would join the flesh only . The soul says , Have ...
Page 99
... leave out their heart , you shall lose your own . The senses would make things of all persons ; of women , of children , of the poor . The vulgar proverb , " I will get it from his purse or get it from his skin , " is sound philosophy ...
... leave out their heart , you shall lose your own . The senses would make things of all persons ; of women , of children , of the poor . The vulgar proverb , " I will get it from his purse or get it from his skin , " is sound philosophy ...
Page 104
... leave no in- let or clew . Some damning circumstance always transpires . The laws and substances of nature - water , snow , wind , gravitation- become penalties to the thief . On the other hand , the law holds with equal sure- ness for ...
... leave no in- let or clew . Some damning circumstance always transpires . The laws and substances of nature - water , snow , wind , gravitation- become penalties to the thief . On the other hand , the law holds with equal sure- ness for ...
Page 128
... leaves ; let him scatter them on every wind as the momentary signs of his infinite productiveness . He may have his own . A man's genius , the quality that differences him from every other , the susceptibility 128 ESSAY IV .
... leaves ; let him scatter them on every wind as the momentary signs of his infinite productiveness . He may have his own . A man's genius , the quality that differences him from every other , the susceptibility 128 ESSAY IV .
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