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" Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus, Methodism and Unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, but rest on the same foundations of wonder as the town of Troy, and the temple of Delphos, and are as swiftly passing away. "
Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 37
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 5

1909 - 540 pages
...middle age ; then in Calvinism. Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus, methodism and unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, but rest on the...boats, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues, and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon,...
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My Literary Passions

William Dean Howells - 1910 - 332 pages
...a king in disguise. . . . Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus, Methodism and Unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, but rest on the...wonder as the town of Troy and the temple of Delphos." Perhaps we ought not to deny their town of Troy and their temple of Delphos to the dull people ; but...
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Our America

Waldo David Frank - 1919 - 258 pages
...desultory paragraphs. Emerson might protest "that our Banks and tariffs, the newspapers and caucus . . . rest on the same foundations of wonder as the Town of Troy." His own aloof absorption was far more impressive. And it impressed. 72 energy away, flinging it on...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...dull people, but rest on the same foundations of wonder as the town of Troy and the temple of Delphi and are as swiftly passing away. Our logrolling, our...boats, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues, and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 pages
...middle age; then in Calvinism. Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus, methodism and unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, but rest on the...foundations of wonder as the town of Troy and the temple of Delphi and are as swiftly passing away. Our logrolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries,...
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University of Illinois Studies in Language and Literature

University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus) - 1923 - 668 pages
...Middle Age; then in Calvinism. Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus, Methodism and Unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, but rest on the...foundations of wonder as the town of Troy and the temple at Delphi, and are as swiftly passing away. Our log-rolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries,...
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Americans

Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1922 - 360 pages
...same gods whose picture it so much admires in Homer; then in the middle age; then in Calvinism . . . Our log-rolling, our stumps and their politics, our...boats, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues, and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon...
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The New America

Waldo David Frank - 1922 - 264 pages
...desultory paragraphs. Emerson might protest " that our Banks and tariffs, the newspapers and caucus . . . rest on the same foundations of wonder as the Town of Troy." His own aloof absorption was far more impressive. And it impressed. drawing-rooms and lecture-halls...
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Emerson's Theories of Literary Expressions, Volume 8

Emerson Grant Sutcliffe - 1923 - 168 pages
...dull people, but rest on the same foundations of wonder as the town of Troy and the temple at Delphi, and are as swiftly passing away. Our log-rolling,...our fisheries, our Negroes and Indians, our boats . . . , the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clear><tt Representative Men: Goethe,...
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The American Adam

R. W. B. Lewis - 1955 - 212 pages
...in which Emerson paraded before readers and writers the teeming ingredients for a great new poetry ("Our log-rolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes and Indians . . . the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing," etc.). Here are some of Gardiner's...
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