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" Yet see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself, unless he speak the phraseology of I know not what David, or Jeremiah, or Paul. We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts, on a few lives. "
The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation - Page 60
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 108 pages
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An American Bible

Alice Hubbard - 1911 - 462 pages
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Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With Annotations, Volume 5

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 616 pages
...occupies most of p. 66, of "Self- Reliance." Sentences not there given are retained. the sound. Be assured we shall not always set so great a price on a few texts, on a few lives.' . . . November 14. This palsy of tradition goes so far that when a soul in which the intellectual activity...
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English Prose: A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice of ...

Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...5 future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects...phraseology of I know not what David, or Jeremiah, or 10 Paul. We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts, on a few lives. We are like children...
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English Prose: A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice of ...

Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...5 future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects...phraseology of I know not what David, or Jeremiah, orio Paul. We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts, on a few lives. We are like children...
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College Life

Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 568 pages
...the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects...like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors, and, as they grow older, of the men of talents and character they chance to see,...
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Readings from American Literature: A Textbook for Schools and Colleges

Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 pages
...'the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects...like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors, and, as they grow older, of the men and talents and character they chance to...
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Emerson's Essays on Manners, Self-reliance, Compensation, Nature, Friendship

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...future. He 10 cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects...phraseology of I know not what David, or Jeremiah, 15 or Paul. We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts, on a few lines. We are like children...
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English and Engineering

Frank Aydelotte - 1917 - 420 pages
...the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects...like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors, and, as they grow older, of the men of talents and character they chance to see,...
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Essays for College English

James Cloyd Bowman - 1918 - 504 pages
...the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects...like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors, and, as they grow older, of the men of talents and character they chance to see,...
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Readings from Great Authors

John Haynes Holmes, Harvey Dee Brown, Helen Edmunds Redding, Theodora Goldsmith - 1918 - 120 pages
...worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanctity and authority of the soul. We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts or a few lives. The soul degrades the past; it turns riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame....
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