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Miscellanies, Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures - Page 99
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 383 pages
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Representative Men: Nature, Addresses and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 658 pages
...confessions, his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses, until he finds that he is the complement of his hearers ; — that they drink his words because...own nature ; the deeper he dives into his privatest, secrelest presentiment, to his wonder he finds this is the most acceptable, most public, and universally...
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Emerson's Complete Works: Nature, addresses and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 388 pages
...confessions, his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses, until he finds that he is the complement of his hearers ; — that they drink his words because he fulfils for them thcir own nature ; the deeper he dives into his privatest, seeretest presentiment, to his wonder he...
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The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 398 pages
...— his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses, — until he finds that he is the complement of his hearers ; — that they drink his words because...every man feels, This is my music ; this is myself. In self -trust, all the virtues are comprehended. Free should the scholar be, — free and brave. Free...
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Four Great Teachers: John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and ...

Joseph Forster - 1890 - 160 pages
...— his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses, — until he finds that he is the complement of his hearers ; that they drink his words because...every man feels : This is my music ; this is myself. " For this self-trust, the reason is deeper than can be fathomed — darker than can be enlightened....
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Four Great Teachers: John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and ...

Joseph Forster - 1890 - 162 pages
...confessions,—his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses,—until he finds that he is the complement of his hearers ; that they drink his words because...every man feels : This is my music ; this is myself. " For this self-trust, the reason is deeper than can be fathomed—darker than can be enlightened....
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Poems and Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 268 pages
...confessions, his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses, until he finds that he is the complement of his hearers ; — that they drink his words because...the deeper he dives into his privatest, secretest pre« sentiment, to his wonder he finds this is the most acceptable, most public, and universally true....
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The American Scholar: An Address

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 142 pages
...confessions, his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses, until he finds that he is the complement of his hearers ; — that they drink his words because...them their own nature ; the deeper he dives into his privates!, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds this is the most acceptable, most public,...
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History, Self-reliance, Nature, Spiritual Laws, The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...confessions, his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses, until he finds that ^he is the complement of his hearers; — that ; they drink his words because...for ^ them their own nature ; the deeper he dives i into his privatest, secretest presentiment, to \ his wonder he finds this is the most acceptaj ble,...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Letters and social aims

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1917 - 466 pages
...confessions, his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses, until he finds that he is the complement of his hearers; — that they drink his words because...he finds this is the most acceptable, most public, most universally true." — " The American Scholar," Nature, Addresses and Lectures. Page I2Q, note...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical ..., Volume 8

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 472 pages
...confessions, his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses, until he finds that he is the complement of his hearers; — that they drink his words because...them their own nature; the deeper he dives into his privates!, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds this is the most acceptable, most public,...
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