The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In 2 Volumes. [Inhalt. Vol. I: Miscellanies. - Essays. Vol. II: Representative Men. - English Traits. - Conduct of Life.]. I, Volume 1Fields, Osgood, & Company, 1870 |
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Page 41
... perfect . What we are , that only can we see . All that Adam had , all that Cæsar could , you have and can do . Adam called his house , heaven and earth ; Cæsar called his house , Rome ; you perhaps call yours , a cobbler's trade ; a ...
... perfect . What we are , that only can we see . All that Adam had , all that Cæsar could , you have and can do . Adam called his house , heaven and earth ; Cæsar called his house , Rome ; you perhaps call yours , a cobbler's trade ; a ...
Page 48
... perfect . As no air- pump can by any means make a perfect vacuum , so neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional , the local , the perishable from his book , or write a book of pure thought , that shall be as efficient ...
... perfect . As no air- pump can by any means make a perfect vacuum , so neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional , the local , the perishable from his book , or write a book of pure thought , that shall be as efficient ...
Page 49
... perfect ; as love of the hero corrupts into worship of his statue . Instantly , the book becomes noxious : the guide is a tyrant . The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude , slow to open to the incursions of Reason , having once ...
... perfect ; as love of the hero corrupts into worship of his statue . Instantly , the book becomes noxious : the guide is a tyrant . The sluggish and perverted mind of the multitude , slow to open to the incursions of Reason , having once ...
Page 56
... perfect comprehension of its nature and extent ; he will have made his hands meet on the other side , and can henceforth defy it , and pass on superior . The world is his , who can see through its pretension . What deafness , what stone ...
... perfect comprehension of its nature and extent ; he will have made his hands meet on the other side , and can henceforth defy it , and pass on superior . The world is his , who can see through its pretension . What deafness , what stone ...
Page 66
... perfect , he is born , low as he now lies in evil and weakness . That which he venerates is still his own , though he has not realized it yet . He ought . He knows the sense of that grand word , though his analysis fails entirely to ...
... perfect , he is born , low as he now lies in evil and weakness . That which he venerates is still his own , though he has not realized it yet . He ought . He knows the sense of that grand word , though his analysis fails entirely to ...
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