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" Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow a stranger will say with... "
The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation - Page 45
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 108 pages
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The American Tradition in Literature

George B. Perkins - 1990 - 2156 pages
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Modern Arts Criticism: A Biographical and Critical Guide to ..., Volume 2

Joann Prosyniuk - 1991 - 496 pages
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Modern Arts Criticism: A Biographical and Critical Guide to ..., Volume 2

Joann Prosyniuk - 1992 - 496 pages
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The Complete Sermons of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 3

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1989 - 450 pages
...teach you. 7. Luke 9:53. 8. Mark 8:36-37. 9. George Herbert, "The Elixir," lines 1-4, 13-16. 10. Cf. "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction . . . that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion" ("Self-Reliance," CW 2:27-28). See also...
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John Burroughs: An American Naturalist

Edward Renehan - 1992 - 392 pages
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Self-reliance, and Other Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1993 - 132 pages
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The American Intellectual Tradition: 1630-1865

David A. Hollinger, Charles Capper - 1993 - 502 pages
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Microsociology: Discourse, Emotion, and Social Structure

Thomas J. Scheff - 1990 - 231 pages
...good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely...take with shame our own opinion from another. There are several important ideas in this passage, but they are not developed by Emerson, only mentioned...
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Politics by Other Means: Higher Education and Group Thinking

David Bromwich - 1994 - 284 pages
...good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely...forced to take with shame our own opinion from another. The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray. Few and...
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