The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 11-12Wm. H. Wise, 1911 - 416 pages |
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Page 126
... less shrewd than those of Birmingham and Manches- ter to see that if the state of things in the islands was altered , if the slaves had wages , the slaves would be clothed , would build houses , would fill them with tools , with pottery ...
... less shrewd than those of Birmingham and Manches- ter to see that if the state of things in the islands was altered , if the slaves had wages , the slaves would be clothed , would build houses , would fill them with tools , with pottery ...
Page 134
... less amiable and less innocent ? I entreat you , sirs , let not this stain attach , let not this misery accumulate any longer . If the managers of our political parties are too prudent and too cold ; if , most unhappily , the ambi ...
... less amiable and less innocent ? I entreat you , sirs , let not this stain attach , let not this misery accumulate any longer . If the managers of our political parties are too prudent and too cold ; if , most unhappily , the ambi ...
Page 139
... less . Of course , the timid and base persons , all who are conscious of no worth in themselves , and who owe all their place to the opportunities which the older order of things . allowed them , to deceive and defraud men , shudder at ...
... less . Of course , the timid and base persons , all who are conscious of no worth in themselves , and who owe all their place to the opportunities which the older order of things . allowed them , to deceive and defraud men , shudder at ...
Page 157
... less true that it is the record of the mitigation and decline of war . Early in the eleventh and twelfth centuries ... less frequent and less murderous . • By all these means , war has been steadily on WAR 157.
... less true that it is the record of the mitigation and decline of war . Early in the eleventh and twelfth centuries ... less frequent and less murderous . • By all these means , war has been steadily on WAR 157.
Page 167
... less weighty . There are cases fre- quently put by the curious , moral problems , like those problems in arithmetic which in long winter evenings the rustics try the hardness of their heads in ciphering out . And chiefly it is said ...
... less weighty . There are cases fre- quently put by the curious , moral problems , like those problems in arithmetic which in long winter evenings the rustics try the hardness of their heads in ciphering out . And chiefly it is said ...
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