The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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Page 59
... speak in midnight dark , - In heaven no star , on earth no spark , Yet before the listener's eye Swims the world in ecstasy , The forest waves , the morning breaks , The pastures sleep , ripple the lakes , Leaves twinkle , flowers like ...
... speak in midnight dark , - In heaven no star , on earth no spark , Yet before the listener's eye Swims the world in ecstasy , The forest waves , the morning breaks , The pastures sleep , ripple the lakes , Leaves twinkle , flowers like ...
Page 61
... speak can sing . So prob- ably every man is eloquent once in his life . Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat ... speaking - point , and all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors , and they avenge ...
... speak can sing . So prob- ably every man is eloquent once in his life . Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat ... speaking - point , and all others to a degree that makes them good receivers and conductors , and they avenge ...
Page 62
... speak , that they shall hear worse orators than them- selves.1 But this lust to speak marks the universal feeling of the energy of the engine , and the cu- riosity men feel to touch the springs . Of all the musical instruments on which ...
... speak , that they shall hear worse orators than them- selves.1 But this lust to speak marks the universal feeling of the energy of the engine , and the cu- riosity men feel to touch the springs . Of all the musical instruments on which ...
Page 68
... speaking becomes at once practi- cable . I do not rate this animal eloquence very highly ; and yet , as we must be fed and ... speak- ers , and have every advantage over the New I England people , whose climate is so cold that ' 68 ELOQUENCE.
... speaking becomes at once practi- cable . I do not rate this animal eloquence very highly ; and yet , as we must be fed and ... speak- ers , and have every advantage over the New I England people , whose climate is so cold that ' 68 ELOQUENCE.
Page 75
... speaking have their use and convenience to the practitioners ; but we may say of such collectively that the habit of oratory is apt to disqualify them for eloquence . One of our statesmen ' said , " The curse of this country is eloquent ...
... speaking have their use and convenience to the practitioners ; but we may say of such collectively that the habit of oratory is apt to disqualify them for eloquence . One of our statesmen ' said , " The curse of this country is eloquent ...
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