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" Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater.... "
The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation, - Page 52
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 132 pages
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Essays for College English

James Cloyd Bowman - 1918 - 504 pages
...seen to be not private but necessary, would sink like darts into the ear of men and put them in fear. These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but...agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most requests is conformity....
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An American Bible

Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 pages
...to be not private but necessary, would sink like darts into the ear of men, and put them in fear. <I These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but...grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world s» Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is...
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Readings from Great Authors

John Haynes Holmes, Harvey Dee Brown, Helen Edmunds Redding, Theodora Goldsmith - 1918 - 120 pages
...fact. in Whoso would be a man, must he a non-conformist. Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Let a man take reputation and life in his hands, and dare the gibbet and the mob by the truth of his...
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Human Conduct: A Textbook in General Philosophy and Applied Psychology for ...

Charles Clinton Peters - 1918 - 460 pages
...fellows and of social conventions. In praising self-reliance Emerson complains : Society is everywhere in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint stock company, in which the members agree, for the better assuring of his bread to each shareholder,...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...to be not private, but necessary, would sink like darts into the ear of men, and put them in fear. These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but...agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty ,d culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is rmity....
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Types of the Essay

Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 422 pages
...mythology, Lethe was a river in Hades. Those who drank of its waters lost all memory of their past lives. they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the...agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity....
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Rough-hewn

Dorothy Canfield Fisher - 1922 - 522 pages
...empty station he opened the Emerson. What were some of those places he used to think so fine? . . . "Society is a jointstock company in which the members agree, for the better securing of the bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most...
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Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays for First-year Students Selected by the ...

University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 444 pages
...to be not private, but necessary, would sink like darts into the ear of men, and put them in fear. These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but...agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity....
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Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays Selected by the Department of Rhetoric ...

University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 460 pages
...to be not private, but necessary, would sink like darts into the ear of men, and put them in fear. These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but...agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity....
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My Little Book of Emerson: Being an Introd. to Emerson and a Breviary of His ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 pages
...they are born, take a bee-line to the rack of the inquisitor, the axe of the tyrant COURAGE Oociety everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of...agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity....
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