Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 42
... swift , summary way of boys , as good , bad , in- teresting , silly , eloquent , troublesome . He cumbers himself never about consequences , about interests : he gives an independent , genuine verdict . You must 42 ESSAY II .
... swift , summary way of boys , as good , bad , in- teresting , silly , eloquent , troublesome . He cumbers himself never about consequences , about interests : he gives an independent , genuine verdict . You must 42 ESSAY II .
Page 45
... never varnish your hard , uncharita- ble ambition with this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off . Thy love afar is spite at home . ' Rough and graceless would be such greet- ing , but truth is handsomer than the ...
... never varnish your hard , uncharita- ble ambition with this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off . Thy love afar is spite at home . ' Rough and graceless would be such greet- ing , but truth is handsomer than the ...
Page 50
... never to rely on your memory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . In your meta- physics you have denied personality to the ...
... never to rely on your memory alone , scarcely even in acts of pure memory , but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand - eyed present , and live ever in a new day . In your meta- physics you have denied personality to the ...
Page 52
... last of conformity and consistency . Let the words be ga- zetted and ridiculous henceforward . Instead of the gong for dinner , let us hear a whistle from the Spar- A tan fife . Let us never bow and apologize 52 ESSAY II .
... last of conformity and consistency . Let the words be ga- zetted and ridiculous henceforward . Instead of the gong for dinner , let us hear a whistle from the Spar- A tan fife . Let us never bow and apologize 52 ESSAY II .
Page 53
Ralph Waldo Emerson. A tan fife . Let us never bow and apologize more . great man is coming to eat at my house . I do not wish to please him ; I wish that he should wish to please me . I will stand here for humanity , and though I would ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. A tan fife . Let us never bow and apologize more . great man is coming to eat at my house . I do not wish to please him ; I wish that he should wish to please me . I will stand here for humanity , and though I would ...
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