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Miscellanies, Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures - Page 96
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 383 pages
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Nature: Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 326 pages
...of the education of the scholar by nature, by books, and by action. It remains to say somewhat, of his duties. They are such as become Man Thinking....them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, nnhonored, and unpaid task of observation. Flamsteed and Ilerschel, in their glazed observatories,...
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Emerson's Complete Works: Nature, addresses and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 388 pages
...edueation of the scholar by nature, by books, auil by aetion. It remains to say somewhat of his dutics. They are such as become Man Thinking. They * may all...comprised in self-trust. The office of the scholar is to chcer, to raise, and to guide men </ by showing them faets amidst appearances. IIo plics the slow,...
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The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 398 pages
...spoken of the education of the scholar by nature, by books, and by action. It remains to say somewhat of his duties. They are such as become Man Thinking....them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonoured, and unpaid task of observation. Flamsteed and Herschel, in their glazed observatories,...
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A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

James Elliot Cabot - 1887 - 406 pages
...true order ; to unsettle all conventional values, and rate everything at its true worth to mankind. He is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. " These being his functions, it becomes him to feel all confidence in himself, and to defer never to...
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Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...education of the scholar by nature, "u /I by books, and by action. It remains to say somewhat of his 1 (^ duties. / They are such as become Man Thinking. They...them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonoured, and unpaid task of observation. Flamsteed and Herschel, in their glazed observatories,...
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Emerson in Concord: A Memoir

Edward Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 286 pages
...honesty of a party or speaker stand in his way> disposes of them cheaply as the ' sentimental class.' " " The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise and...guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. These being his functions, it becomes him to feel all confidence in himself and to defer never to the...
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Emerson in Concord: A Memoir, Written for the "Social Circle" in Concord ...

Edward Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 286 pages
...honesty of a party or speaker stand in his way, disposes of them cheaply as the ' sentimental class.' " " The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise and...guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. These being his functions, it becomes him to feel all confidence in himself and to defer never to the...
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Four Great Teachers: John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and ...

Joseph Forster - 1890 - 160 pages
...following powerful passage on the thinker. In speaking of the duties of a thinker, Emerson said : — " They are such as become Man — Thinking. They may...to raise, and to guide men, by showing them facts and appearances. He plies the slow, unhonoured, and unpaid task of observation. Flamsteed and Herschel,...
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The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pages
...under the influence of frenzy. * Alfred the Great (849-901), King of the West Saxons, a distinguished They are such as become Man Thinking. They may all...unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. Flamsteed l and Herschel,2 in their glazed observatories, may catalogue the stars with the praise of all men,...
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Select American Classics: Being Selections from Irving's Sketch Book and ...

1896 - 374 pages
...the name Berserkirs was given to a class of warriors who fought naked under the influence of frenzy. They are such as become Man Thinking. They may all...unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. Flamsteed l and Herschel,2 in their glazed observatories, may catalogue the stars with the praise of all men,...
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