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" We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state, but we see that most natures are insolvent; cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually.... "
The Essay on Self-reliance - Page 43
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 59 pages
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Types of the Essay

Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 432 pages
...of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...so do lean and beg day and night continually. Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen,...
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Types of the Essay

Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 416 pages
...of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...so do lean and beg day and night continually. Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen,...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 pages
...of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...so do lean and beg day and night continually. Our housekeeping is mendicant; our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen,...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...so do lean and beg day and night continually^ Our housekeeping is mendicant; our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen,...
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English and Engineering: A Volume of Essays for English Classes in ...

Frank Aydelotte - 1923 - 450 pages
...of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...out of all proportion to their practical force and do lean and beg day and night continually. Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations,...
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Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays for First-year Students Selected by the ...

University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 430 pages
...of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...out of all proportion to their practical force, and do lean and beg day and night continually. Our housekeeping is mendicant; our arts, our occupations,...
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Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays Selected by the Department of Rhetoric ...

University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 460 pages
...of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...out of all proportion to their practical force, and do lean and beg day and night continually. Our housekeeping is mendicant; our arts, our occupations,...
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The Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota, Volume 7

University of North Dakota - 1917 - 420 pages
...Emerson answers this question with historic accuracy and spiritual insight, as the following words show: We want men and women who shall renovate life and...own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion •Oppenheimer, "The State," p. 90, Indianapolis, 1914. to their practical force, and so do learn and...
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New Outlook, Volume 8

1955 - 1122 pages
...little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. WE WANT MEN and women who shall renovate life and...out of all proportion to their practical force, and do lean and beg day and night continually. IT IS EASY TO SEE that a greater self-reliance must work...
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Liberty and the Great Libertarians: An Anthology on Liberty, a Hand-book of ...

Charles T. Sprading - 1913 - 550 pages
...of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...out of all proportion to their practical force, and do lean and beg day and night continually. Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations,...
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