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Essays: First series - Page 44
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 343 pages
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...ground which is given to him to till. (The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. I Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact makes much impression on him, and another none....
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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
...ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know...fall that it might testify of that particular ray. ^Ve but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It...
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Public Speaking for Business Men

William George Hoffman - 1923 - 316 pages
...take with shame our own opinion from another. which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do : nor does he know until he has tried. We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It...
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The Story of Our Literature: An Interpretation of the American Spirit

John Louis Haney - 1923 - 484 pages
...ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. With scornful denunciation Emerson dismisses the small virtues of conformity and consistency as evidences...
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Complete Course in Public Speaking

Joseph Albert Mosher - 1920 - 668 pages
...ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know...fall, that it might testify of that particular ray. FORCE (STRESS) 187 We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of...
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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
...ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. —SELF-RELIANCE + 1 am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies...
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The Life and Letters of John Burroughs, Volume 1

Clara Barrus - 1925 - 452 pages
...ground which is given him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know it until he has tried. EMERSON OF the next epoch in the life of John Burroughs, the period from 1854...
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Century Readings for a Course in American Literature, Volume 2

Fred Lewis Pattee - 1926 - 1162 pages
...ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know...particular ray. We but half express ourselves, and arc ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely intrusted as proportionate...
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Emerson's Essays and Poems: Selected and Edited with an Introd

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...ground which is given to him to tUl. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know...the memory is not without pre-established harmony. The^ye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might teiOfy~6F that particular ray. We but half...
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American Literature

Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know...none. This sculpture in the memory is not without prei'stablished harmony. The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that...
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