Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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... - ship is entireness , a total magnanimity and trust . It must not surmise or provide for infirmity . It treats its object as a god , that it may deify both . PRUDENCE . THEME no poet gladly sung , Fair to 206 FRIENDSHIP .
... - ship is entireness , a total magnanimity and trust . It must not surmise or provide for infirmity . It treats its object as a god , that it may deify both . PRUDENCE . THEME no poet gladly sung , Fair to 206 FRIENDSHIP .
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... prudence or law of shows recognizes the co-presence of other laws and knows that its own office is subaltern ; knows that it is surface and not centre where it works. Prudence is false when detached. It is legitimate when it is the ...
... prudence or law of shows recognizes the co-presence of other laws and knows that its own office is subaltern ; knows that it is surface and not centre where it works. Prudence is false when detached. It is legitimate when it is the ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. VII . PRUDENCE . WHAT right have I to write on Prudence , where- of I have little , and that of the negative sort ? My prudence consists in avoiding and going without , not in the inventing of means and methods , not ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. VII . PRUDENCE . WHAT right have I to write on Prudence , where- of I have little , and that of the negative sort ? My prudence consists in avoiding and going without , not in the inventing of means and methods , not ...
Page 208
... prudence or law of shows recognizes the co - presence of other laws and knows that its own office is subaltern ; knows that it is surface and not centre where it works . Prudence is false when detached . It is legitimate when it is the ...
... prudence or law of shows recognizes the co - presence of other laws and knows that its own office is subaltern ; knows that it is surface and not centre where it works . Prudence is false when detached . It is legitimate when it is the ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. VII . PRUDENCE . WHAT right have I to write on Prudence , where- of I have little , and that of the negative sort ? My prudence consists in avoiding and going without , not in the inventing ... PRUDENCE PRUDence PRUDENCE.
Ralph Waldo Emerson. VII . PRUDENCE . WHAT right have I to write on Prudence , where- of I have little , and that of the negative sort ? My prudence consists in avoiding and going without , not in the inventing ... PRUDENCE PRUDence PRUDENCE.
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