Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 páginas |
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... honour in his own country . reputation was home - made and jealously home - guarded . Almost from the start of his career his kinsmen of Boston and New England heard him gladly ; and his fame spread thence slowly and surely over the ...
... honour in his own country . reputation was home - made and jealously home - guarded . Almost from the start of his career his kinsmen of Boston and New England heard him gladly ; and his fame spread thence slowly and surely over the ...
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... honour , who will keep men to the higher levels . Indeed , it might be charged against his strenuous individualism that it tends to foster an extreme of self - assertion and exclusiveness , the more so , that the social instinct finds ...
... honour , who will keep men to the higher levels . Indeed , it might be charged against his strenuous individualism that it tends to foster an extreme of self - assertion and exclusiveness , the more so , that the social instinct finds ...
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... honour to the community . I am told that things are boasted of in the second class of society there , which , in England , —God knows , are done in England every day , but would never be spoken of . America I wish to know not how many ...
... honour to the community . I am told that things are boasted of in the second class of society there , which , in England , —God knows , are done in England every day , but would never be spoken of . America I wish to know not how many ...
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... honoured himself by his simple adherence to truth , and was very willing not to shine ; but he surprised by the hard limits of his thought . To judge from a single conversation , he made the impression of a narrow and very English mind ...
... honoured himself by his simple adherence to truth , and was very willing not to shine ; but he surprised by the hard limits of his thought . To judge from a single conversation , he made the impression of a narrow and very English mind ...
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... And they have impressed their directness and practical habit on modern civilisation . It is not usually a point of honour , nor a religious sentiment , and never any whim that they will shed their blood 18 RACE AND ABILITY .
... And they have impressed their directness and practical habit on modern civilisation . It is not usually a point of honour , nor a religious sentiment , and never any whim that they will shed their blood 18 RACE AND ABILITY .
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action appear beauty behold believe Ben Jonson better Celt character church conversation divine doctrine Emerson England English Ernest Rhys eternal evil fact faith fear feel force genius give Goethe Greek Havelock Ellis hear heart heaven honour hour human idea individual inspiration instinct intellect justice labour live look man's manual labour Margaret Fuller means Milton mind moral nations nature never noble numbers opinion perfect persons Phidias philosophy Phocion Plato poet poetry political present race reform relations religion religious Richard of Devizes Saxon scholar secret seems sense sentiment Shakespeare society soul speak spirit stand sublime T. W. Rolleston talent thee things thou thought tion to-day true truth universe virtue WALTER SCOTT whilst whole wisdom wise wish words write