Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Addresses, and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson. that we may speak . The Arabian proverb says , “ A fig tree , looking on a fig tree , becometh fruitful . ” - It is remarkable , the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books ...
Addresses, and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson. that we may speak . The Arabian proverb says , “ A fig tree , looking on a fig tree , becometh fruitful . ” - It is remarkable , the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books ...
Page 114
... so . We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds . The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity , - — for doubt , and for sensual indulgence . The dread 114 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR .
... so . We will walk on our own feet ; we will work with our own hands ; we will speak our own minds . The study of letters shall be no longer a name for pity , - — for doubt , and for sensual indulgence . The dread 114 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR .
Page 122
... By it a man is made the Providence to himself , dispensing good to his goodness , and evil to his sin . Character is always known . Thefts never enrich ; alms never - impoverish ; murder will speak out of stone walls 122 ADDRESS .
... By it a man is made the Providence to himself , dispensing good to his goodness , and evil to his sin . Character is always known . Thefts never enrich ; alms never - impoverish ; murder will speak out of stone walls 122 ADDRESS .
Page 123
... speak the truth , and all na- ture and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance . Speak the truth , and all things alive or brute are vouchers , and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear ...
... speak the truth , and all na- ture and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance . Speak the truth , and all things alive or brute are vouchers , and the very roots of the grass underground there do seem to stir and move to bear ...
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... speaking , it is not instruction , but provocation , that I can receive from another soul . What he an- nounces , I must find true in me , or reject ; and on his word , or as his second , be he who he may , I can accept nothing . On the ...
... speaking , it is not instruction , but provocation , that I can receive from another soul . What he an- nounces , I must find true in me , or reject ; and on his word , or as his second , be he who he may , I can accept nothing . On the ...
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