The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volumes 7-8Wm. H. Wise, 1912 |
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Page 38
... Speech is a great plea- sure , and action a great pleasure ; they cannot be foreborne . The utterance of thought and emotion in speech and action may be conscious or uncon- scious . The sucking child is an unconscious actor . The man in ...
... Speech is a great plea- sure , and action a great pleasure ; they cannot be foreborne . The utterance of thought and emotion in speech and action may be conscious or uncon- scious . The sucking child is an unconscious actor . The man in ...
Page 67
... heavily fail through one bad speech , mere energy and mellowness are then inestimable . Wisdom and learning would be harsh and unwelcome , compared with a substantial cordial man , made of milk as we say , who is a house ELOQUENCE 67.
... heavily fail through one bad speech , mere energy and mellowness are then inestimable . Wisdom and learning would be harsh and unwelcome , compared with a substantial cordial man , made of milk as we say , who is a house ELOQUENCE 67.
Page 68
... speech flows like a river , - so unconsidered , so humorous , so pa- thetic , such justice done to all the parts ! It is a true transubstantiation , the fact converted into speech , all warm and colored and alive , as it fell out . Our ...
... speech flows like a river , - so unconsidered , so humorous , so pa- thetic , such justice done to all the parts ! It is a true transubstantiation , the fact converted into speech , all warm and colored and alive , as it fell out . Our ...
Page 72
... speech , and was the younger . But when the wise Ulysses arose and stood and looked down , fixing his eyes on the ground , and neither moved his sceptre backward nor forward , but held it still , like an awkward person , you would say ...
... speech , and was the younger . But when the wise Ulysses arose and stood and looked down , fixing his eyes on the ground , and neither moved his sceptre backward nor forward , but held it still , like an awkward person , you would say ...
Page 73
... speech . Plutarcl tells us that Thucydides , when Archidamus , king of Sparta , asked him which was the best wrest- ler , Pericles or he , replied , " When I throw him , he says he was never down , and he persuades the very spectators ...
... speech . Plutarcl tells us that Thucydides , when Archidamus , king of Sparta , asked him which was the best wrest- ler , Pericles or he , replied , " When I throw him , he says he was never down , and he persuades the very spectators ...
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