Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 66
... religion , we have not cho- sen , but society has chosen for us . We are parlour soldiers . We shun the rugged battle of fate , where strength is born . If our young men miscarry in their first enterprises , they lose all heart . If the ...
... religion , we have not cho- sen , but society has chosen for us . We are parlour soldiers . We shun the rugged battle of fate , where strength is born . If our young men miscarry in their first enterprises , they lose all heart . If the ...
Page 67
... religion ; in their education ; in their pursuits ; their modes of living ; their asso- ciation ; in their property ; in their speculative views . 1. In what prayers do men allow themselves ! That which they call a holy office is not so ...
... religion ; in their education ; in their pursuits ; their modes of living ; their asso- ciation ; in their property ; in their speculative views . 1. In what prayers do men allow themselves ! That which they call a holy office is not so ...
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... the ear and the tongue are two organs of one nature . Abide in the simple and noble regions of thy life , obey thy heart , and thou shalt reproduce the Foreworld again . 4. As our Religion , our Education , our Art SELF - RELIANCE . 73.
... the ear and the tongue are two organs of one nature . Abide in the simple and noble regions of thy life , obey thy heart , and thou shalt reproduce the Foreworld again . 4. As our Religion , our Education , our Art SELF - RELIANCE . 73.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. 4. As our Religion , our Education , our Art look abroad , so does our spirit of society . All men plume themselves on the improvement of society , and no man improves . Society never advances . It recedes as fast on ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. 4. As our Religion , our Education , our Art look abroad , so does our spirit of society . All men plume themselves on the improvement of society , and no man improves . Society never advances . It recedes as fast on ...
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... religion , and philosophy of the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes , three or four and twenty centuries ago . Not in time is the race progressive . Phocion , Socrates , Anaxagoras , Diogenes , are ...
... religion , and philosophy of the nineteenth century avail to educate greater men than Plutarch's heroes , three or four and twenty centuries ago . Not in time is the race progressive . Phocion , Socrates , Anaxagoras , Diogenes , are ...
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