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History, Self-reliance, Nature, Spiritual Laws, The American Scholar - Page 171
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 180 pages
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The International Quarterly, Volume 8

Frederick Albert Richardson - 1903 - 460 pages
...eminences, and is independent of all the forms of adventitious circumstance. "They are the kings of the world who give the color of their present thought...at last ripe, and inviting nations to the harvest." Finally, the essay proceeds to make its application of the principles discussed to American conditions...
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The American Scholar: An Address

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 140 pages
...Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind. They are the kings of the world who give the color of their present thought...Wherever Macdonald sits, there is the head of the table. Linnaeus makes botany the most alluring of studies, and wins it from the farmer and the herbwoman ;...
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Orations from Homer to William McKinley, Volume 14

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 468 pages
...Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind. They are the kings of the world who give the color of their present thought...Wherever Macdonald sits, there is the head of the table. Linnaeus makes botany the most alluring of studies, and wins it from the farmer and the herb-woman;...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 520 pages
...Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind. They are the kings of the world who give the color of their present thought...Wherever Macdonald sits, there is the head of the table. Linnaeus makes botany the most alluring of studies, and wins it from the farmer and the herb-woman;...
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Modern English Prose

George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - 1904 - 504 pages
...Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind. They are the kings of the world who give the color of their present thought...Wherever Macdonald sits, there is the head of the table. Linnseus makes botany the most alluring of studies and wins it from the farmer and the herb-woman ;...
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The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: society & solitude. Letters & social aims ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 564 pages
...matter, but he who can alter my state of mind. They are the kings of the world who give the colour of their present thought to all nature and all art, and persuade men by the cheer-" ml serenity of their carrying the matter, that this thing which they do, is the apple which...
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Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders ..., Volume 14

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 508 pages
...Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind. They are the kings of the world who give the color of their present thought...Wherever Macdonald sits, there is the head of the table. Linnaeus makes botany the most alluring of studies, and wins it from the farmer and the herb-woman;...
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Select Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...matter, but he who can alter my state of mind. They are the kings of the world who give the colour of their present thought to all nature and all art,...the cheerful serenity of their carrying the matter, 5 that this thing which they do is the apple which the ages have desired to pluck, now at last ripe,...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 5

1909 - 540 pages
...Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind. They are the kings of the world who give the color of their present thought...Wherever Macdonald sits, there is the head of the table. Linnaeus makes botany the most alluring of studies, and wins it from the farmer and the herb-woman...
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Essays and English Traits

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 508 pages
...Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind. They are the kings of the world who give the color of their present thought...Wherever Macdonald sits, there is the head of the table. Linnaeus makes botany the most alluring of studies, and wins it from the farmer and the herb-woman...
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