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Selections from the Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 64
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 380 pages
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Orations from Homer to William McKinley, Volume 14

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 468 pages
...instructors in eloquence and wisdom. The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by as a loss of power. It is the raw material out of which the...satin. The manufacture goes forward at all hours. EMERSON The actions and events of our childhood and youth are now matters of calmest observation. They...
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Nature ; Addresses and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 524 pages
...instructors in eloquence and wisdom. The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power. It is the raw material out of which the...by which experience is converted into thought, as a mul/ / berry leaf is converted into satin. The manu- ^, facture goes forward at all hours. The actions...
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Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders ..., Volume 14

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 460 pages
...instructors in eloquence and wisdom. The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by as a loss of power. It is the raw material out of which the...satin. The manufacture goes forward at all hours. '•*" EMERSON The actions and events of our childhood and youth are now matters of calmest observation....
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Select Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...in eloquence and wisdom. The true scholar grudges every opportunity of 2J action past by, as a loss of power. It is the raw material out of which the intellect 1 That which precedes and introduces. 2 Ie the fear which it inspires. moulds her splendid products....
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Select Essays and Addresses: Including The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...of action passed by, as a loss of power. 23. It is the raw material out of which the intellect molds her splendid products. A strange process too, this...by which experience is converted into thought, as a mulberry-leaf is converted into satin.0 The manufacture goes forward at all hours. 24. The actions...
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The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation,

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...in eloquence and wisdom. The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed by, as a loss of power. It is the raw material out of which the intellect molds her 20 splendid products. A strange process too, this, by which experience is converted into...
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Intensive Studies in American Literature

Alma Blount - 1914 - 406 pages
...us a related series of events leading to some important effect — the climax of the story. In them, "Experience is converted into thought, as a mulberry leaf is converted into satin." (Emerson, The American Scholar.) The world of the imagination is not the world of abstraction and nonentity,...
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American Literature Through Illustrative Readings

Sarah Emma Simons - 1915 - 492 pages
...instructors in eloquence and wisdom. The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power. It is the raw material out of which the...satin. The manufacture goes forward at all hours. Of course, he who has put forth his total strength in fit action has the richest return of wisdom....
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Essays for College English

James Cloyd Bowman, Louis Ignatius Bredvold, LeRoy Bethuel Greenfield, Bruce Weirick - 1915 - 488 pages
...in eloquence and wisdom. The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed by, as a loss of power. It is the raw material out of which the intellect molds her splendid products. A strange process too, this, by which experience is converted into thought,...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...instructors in eloquence and wisdom. The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power. It is the raw material out of which the...hours. The actions and events of our childhood and yoij now matters of calmest observation. They lie pictures in the air. Not so with our recent action...
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