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Emerson's Essays and Poems: Selected and Edited with an Introd - Page 78
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 376 pages
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In Search of a Soul: A Series of Essays in Interpretation of the Higher ...

Horatio Willis Dresser - 1899 - 288 pages
...firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. . . . The power which resides in him is new in nature ; and none 142 but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. . . . Society everywhere...
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Essays. 1901

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 554 pages
...can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till The power which resides in him is new in nature, and...the memory is not without pre-established harmony. The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray. We but...
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Introductory Lessons in English Literature: For High Schools and Academies

Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...come to him but through his toil on that plot of ground which is given him to till. The power which 35 resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows...which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It...
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History, Self-reliance, Nature, Spiritual Laws, The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows \vhat that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Not for nothing one face, one character,...
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So this Then is the Essay on Self-reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 pages
...can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and...fact makes much impression on him, and another none. It is not without pre-established harmony, this sculpture in the memory. The eye was placed where one...
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A Selection from the Best English Essays Illustrative of the History of ...

Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 508 pages
...can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and...the memory is not without pre-established harmony. The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray. We but...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 466 pages
...can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and...the memory is not without preestablished harmony. The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray. We but...
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Public Speaking: A Treatise on Delivery : with Selections for Declaiming

Edwin Du Bois Shurter - 1903 - 278 pages
...him but through his toil bestowed upon that plot of ground that is given him to till. The power that resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows...which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Therefore, my text is, Trust thyself. Is it not an iron string to which vibrates every heart ? —...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 pages
...can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and...sculpture in the memory is not without preestablished harmony.3 The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray....
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Evolution of Expression, Volume 1

Charles Wesley Emerson - 1905 - 138 pages
...can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and...which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. 5. Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact, makes much impression on him, and another none....
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