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" It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because it is not of today. We love it and pay it homage because it is not a trap for our love and homage, but is self-dependent, self-derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown... "
The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation - Page 55
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 108 pages
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Complete Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 pages
...Washington's port, and America into Adams's eye. Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemera. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because it is rot of to-day. We love it and pay it homage because it is not a trap for our love and homage, but is...
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Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed, Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
...Washington's port, and America into Adams's eye. Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemera. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day...last of conformity and consistency. Let the words he gazetted and ridiculous henceforward. Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from...
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Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...Washington's port, and America into Adams's eye. Honour is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day...last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward. Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the...
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Emerson Year Book: Selections for Every Day in the Year from the Essays of ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 168 pages
...or of pictures, addresses. January Fourteenth. Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day...but is self-dependent, self-derived, and therefore cf an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person. v January Fifteenth. We are afraid...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1894 - 334 pages
...Washington's port, and America into Adam's eye. Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day,...pedigree, even if shown in a young person. I hope iii these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 334 pages
...America into Adam's eye. Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always an-eient virtue. We worship it to-day, because it is not of...is self-dependent, self-derived, and therefore of au old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person. I hope in these days we have heard the...
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Literary Interpretations, Or, A Guide to the Teaching and Reading of ...

1896 - 234 pages
...Washington's port, and America into Adams's eye. Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemera. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day...last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward. Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the...
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Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...Washington's port, and America into Adams's eye. Honour is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day...last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward. Instead of the gong for dinner, let us hear a whistle from the...
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Liberty in the Nineteenth Century

Frederic May Holland - 1899 - 280 pages
...what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said to-day." . . . " I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be " . . . "ridiculous henceforward." This is not meant for mere theory. We are told often that " Virtue...
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History, Self-reliance, Nature, Spiritual Laws, The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...Washingtpn^s, port, and America into Adams's eye. Honop' is venerable to us because it is no .eghemera.N It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day...selfdependent, self-derived, and therefore of an old jmrnaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person?" ^ I hope in these days we have heard the last...
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