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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lectures - Page 103
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903
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Four Great Teachers: John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and ...

Joseph Forster - 1890 - 160 pages
...spontaneous thoughts and recording them, is found to have recorded that which men ' in cities vast' find true for them also. The orator distrusts at first the fitness of his frank confessions,—his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses,—until he finds that he is the complement...
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The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pages
...extent of all men whose language he speaks, and of all into whose language his own can be translated. The poet, in utter solitude remembering his spontaneous...hearers ; — that they drink his words because he fulfills for them their own nature ; the deeper he dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment,...
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American Prose: Selections, with Critical Introductions by Various Writers

George Rice Carpenter - 1898 - 498 pages
...extent of all men whose language he speaks, and of all into whose language his own can be translated. The poet, in utter solitude remembering his spontaneous...them, is found to have recorded that which men in " cities vast" find true for them also. The orator distrusts at first the fitness of his frank confessions,...
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american prose

george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 pages
...extent of all men whose language he speaks, and of all into whose language his own can be translated. The poet, in utter solitude remembering his spontaneous...them, is found to have recorded that which men in " cities vast" find true for them also. The orator distrusts at first the fitness of his frank confessions,...
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The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present ..., Volume 5

David Josiah Brewer - 1901 - 450 pages
...extent of all men whose language he speaks, and of all into whose language his own can be translated. The poet, in utter solitude remembering his spontaneous...his hearers; that they drink his words because he fulfills for them their own nature; the deeper he dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment,...
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Orations from Homer to William McKinley, Volume 14

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 468 pages
...extent of all men whose language he speaks and of all into whose language his own can be translated. The poet, in utter solitude remembering his spontaneous...persons he addresses,- — until he finds that he is the com'5942 5943 pleruent of his hearers ; that they drink his words because he fulfils for them their...
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Modern English Prose

George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - 506 pages
...extent of all men whose language he speaks, and of all into whose language his own can be translated. The poet, in utter solitude remembering his spontaneous...them, is found to have recorded that which men in " cities vast " find true for them also. The orator distrusts at first the fitness of his frank confessions,...
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The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: society & solitude. Letters & social aims ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 564 pages
...fitness of his frank confessions,-J^his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses, — un\i|i ne finds that he is the complement of his hearers; —...t\hat they drink his words because he fulfils for them ther^ own nature ; the deeper he dives into his privatest, secrWtest presentiment, to his wonder he...
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Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders ..., Volume 14

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 460 pages
...extent of all men whose language he speaks and of all into whose language his own can be translated. The poet, in utter solitude remembering his spontaneous...persons he addresses, — until he finds that he is the com5943 plement of his hearers ; that they drink his words because he fulfils for them their own nature;...
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Select Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...extent of all men whose language he speaks, and 10 of all into whose language his own can be translated. The poet, in utter solitude remembering his spontaneous...orator distrusts at first the fitness of his frank confes15 sions, his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses, until he finds that he is the complement...
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