Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page 7
... speak to within sixteen miles except the minister of Dunscore ; " so that books inevitably made his topics . " 6 He had names of his own for all the matters familiar to his discourse . Blackwood's was the " sand magazine ; " Fraser's ...
... speak to within sixteen miles except the minister of Dunscore ; " so that books inevitably made his topics . " 6 He had names of his own for all the matters familiar to his discourse . Blackwood's was the " sand magazine ; " Fraser's ...
Page 12
... speaking tongue ; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him . It is race , is it not , that puts the hundred millions of India under the dominion of a remote island in ...
... speaking tongue ; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him . It is race , is it not , that puts the hundred millions of India under the dominion of a remote island in ...
Page 48
... speak the spiritual law , and that no wealth of description or of fancy is yet essentially new , and out of the limits of prose , until this condition is reached . Therefore the grave old poets , like the Greek artists , heeded their ...
... speak the spiritual law , and that no wealth of description or of fancy is yet essentially new , and out of the limits of prose , until this condition is reached . Therefore the grave old poets , like the Greek artists , heeded their ...
Page 62
... speak , cannot make a drop of blood , or a blade of grass , any more than one man can . But let there be one man , let there be truth in two men , in ten men , then is concert for the first time possible , because the force which moves ...
... speak , cannot make a drop of blood , or a blade of grass , any more than one man can . But let there be one man , let there be truth in two men , in ten men , then is concert for the first time possible , because the force which moves ...
Page 63
... speak to divine sentiments in man , and we do not try . We renounce all high aims . We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people who make up society are organic , and society is a hospital of incurables ...
... speak to divine sentiments in man , and we do not try . We renounce all high aims . We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people who make up society are organic , and society is a hospital of incurables ...
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action appear beauty behold believe Ben Jonson better Celt character church conversation divine doctrine Emerson England English Ernest Rhys eternal evil fact faith fear feel force genius give Goethe Greek Havelock Ellis hear heart heaven honour hour human idea individual inspiration instinct intellect justice labour live look man's manual labour Margaret Fuller means Milton mind moral nations nature never noble numbers opinion perfect persons Phidias philosophy Phocion Plato poet poetry political present race reform relations religion religious Richard of Devizes Saxon scholar secret seems sense sentiment Shakespeare society soul speak spirit stand sublime T. W. Rolleston talent thee things thou thought tion to-day true truth universe virtue WALTER SCOTT whilst whole wisdom wise wish words write