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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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So this Then is the Essay on Self-reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 64 pages
..."Washington's port, and America into Adams's eye. Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day,...trap for our love and homage, but is self-dependent, self -derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person. I hope...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 464 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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A Selection from the Best English Essays Illustrative of the History of ...

Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 470 pages
...Washington's port, and America into Adams's eye. Honor 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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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 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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The Essay on Self-reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 70 pages
...Washington's port, and America into Adams's eye. 17 Honor is venerable to us because it is no ^JpheTTierisr It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day,...is self-dependent, self-derived, and therefore of arTotd'Tmmaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person. I hope in these days we have heard the...
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The Freedom of Authority: Essays in Apologetics

James Macbride Sterrett - 1905 - 340 pages
...psychically. "Insist on yourself, never imitate," says Emerson again in his essay on Self-reliance. And again, "I hope in these days we have heard the last of conformity and consistency. Let the words be gazetted and ridiculous henceforward." Emerson must have meant that the perfect man should be a non-conformist...
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Select Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...venerable to us because it is no ephemera.3 It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because 25 it is not of to-day. We love it and pay it homage because 1 Short runs of a boat, beating against the wind. 2 Increasing by successive additions. 3 An insect...
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Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 pages
...eye. Honour is venerable to us because it is no ephemeris. It is always ancient virtue. WeTworship it to-day because it is not of to-day. We love it...trap for our love and homage, but is selfdependent, self -derived, and therefore of an old immaculate pedigree, even if shown in a young person. I hope...
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Essays and English Traits

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 508 pages
...Washington's port, and America into Adams's eye. Honor 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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The Harvard Classics, Volume 5

1909 - 540 pages
...Washington's port, and America into Adams's eye. Honor 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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