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Miscellanies, Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures - Page 99
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 383 pages
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Select Essays and Addresses: Including The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...finds that he is the complement of his hearers ; — that they drink his words because he fulfills for them their own nature ; the deeper he dives into...every man feels, This is my music ; this is myself. 32. In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended. Free 5 should the scholar be, — free and brave....
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The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation,

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...finds that he is the complement of his hearers ; — that they drink his words because he fulfills for them their own nature ; the deeper he dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment, to 10 his wonder he finds, this is the most acceptable, most public, and universally true. The people...
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The World's Progress ...

Delphian Society, Chicago - 1913 - 614 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...fulfils for them their own nature ; the deeper he diyes into his privatest, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds this is the most acceptable,...
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Essays for College Men: 2d Series

Norman Foerster - 1915 - 406 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. f ',* •Jn self-tryst all the virtues are comprehended. Free sHould the scholar be, — free and brave....
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Essays for College English

James Cloyd Bowman, Louis Ignatius Bredvold, LeRoy Bethuel Greenfield, Bruce Weirick - 1915 - 518 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...own nature; the deeper he dives into his privatest, secietest presentiment, to his wonder he finds this is the most acceptable, most public, and universally...
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Representative Phi Beta Kappa Orations

Clark Sutherland Northup, William Coolidge Lane, John Christopher Schwab - 1915 - 526 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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American Prose (1607-1865)

Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1916 - 760 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 he fulfils for them their own nature; the deeper hedives into his privatest, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds, this is the most acceptable,...
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For Pulpit and Platform: A Handbook on Preparation

John Mahan English - 1919 - 160 pages
...the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds. The deeper the orator dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment,...every man feels, This is my music; this is myself." In his "Spiritual Laws" he quotes Sidney's maxim : " ' Look in thy heart and write. He that writes to...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 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^elf-trust, all the virtues are comprehended. Free should the scholar be, — free and brave. Free...
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Select Essays and Addresses, Including The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1922 - 314 pages
...finds that he is the complement of his hearers ; — that they drink his words because he fulfills for them their own nature ; the deeper he dives into...finds this is the most acceptable, most public, and uni versally true. The people delight in it; the better part oi every man feels, This is my music ;...
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