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" All trade rests at last on his primitive activity. He stands close to nature ; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be. The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession... "
Transactions of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society - Page 32
by Wisconsin State Agricultural Society - 1884
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Report, Volume 35

Iowa State Horticultural Society - 1901 - 604 pages
...the summer winds are rolled Its waves of emerald and gold." Emerson in Society and Solitude, says, "The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land." ' 'Our rural ancestors with little blest, Patient of labor when the end...
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Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 316 pages
...his primitive activity. He stands close to nature ; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be. The first...the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. Men do not like hard work, but every man has an exceptional respect for...
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Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 304 pages
...his primitive activity. He stands close to Nature ; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be. The first...the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. Men do not like hard work, but every man has an exceptional respect for...
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THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE

SIMPKIN MARSHALL - 1871 - 476 pages
...primitive authority. He stands close to nature ; he obtains from •the earth, the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be. The first...the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. Men do not like hard work, but every man has an exceptional respect for...
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The Advanced Book of Reading Lessons: Forming a Supplement to the Fourth and ...

Ontario. Council of Public Instruction - 1871 - 506 pages
...primitive authority. He stands close to nature ; he obtains from the earth, the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be. The first...the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. Men do not like hard work, but every man has an exceptional respect for...
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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ..., Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 512 pages
...his primitive activity. He stands close to nature ; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be. The first...the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. Men do not like hard work, but every man has an exceptional respect for...
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The Cyclopędia of Practical Quotations: English and Latin, with an Appendix ...

1882 - 1434 pages
...hnsbondmnn. a. LM:!, i .I,N — Pythagorean Philosophy, from Fifteenth Book of OruTu Metamorphoses. Line 179. possession and use of land. b. EMZBSON — Society and Solitude. Farming. Smoothly and lightly the...
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Complete Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 328 pages
...his primitive activity. He stands close to nature ; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be. The first...the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. Men do not like hard work, but every man has an exceptional respect for...
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Emerson's Complete Works: Society and solitude

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 328 pages
...his primitive activity. He stands close to nature ; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be. The first...the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. Men do not like hard work, but every man has an exceptional respect for...
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Society and solitude, 12 chapters

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 308 pages
...primitive activity. He > stands close to Nature ; he obtains from the earth the bread and the meat. The food which was not, he causes to be. The first...the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. Men do not like hard work, but every man has an exceptional respect for...
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