MiscellaniesHoughton, Mifflin, 1898 - 429 pages |
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... eyes , did not show it . " He quotes from a letter of Miss Sophia Thoreau these words : " I discover a slight shade about the eyes , expressive of weari- ness ; but a stranger might not observe it . I am very glad to possess a picture ...
... eyes , did not show it . " He quotes from a letter of Miss Sophia Thoreau these words : " I discover a slight shade about the eyes , expressive of weari- ness ; but a stranger might not observe it . I am very glad to possess a picture ...
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... eyes . He could estimate the measure of a tree very well by his eyes ; he could estimate the weight of a calf or a pig , like a dealer . From a box containing a bushel or more of loose pencils , he could take up with his hands fast ...
... eyes . He could estimate the measure of a tree very well by his eyes ; he could estimate the weight of a calf or a pig , like a dealer . From a box containing a bushel or more of loose pencils , he could take up with his hands fast ...
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... eyes . I have repeatedly known young men of sensibility con- verted in a moment to the belief that this was the man they were in search of , the man of men , who could tell them all they should do . His own dealing with them was never ...
... eyes . I have repeatedly known young men of sensibility con- verted in a moment to the belief that this was the man they were in search of , the man of men , who could tell them all they should do . His own dealing with them was never ...
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... eye , and whose fine clear note Thoreau compared to that of a tanager which has got rid of its hoarseness . Presently he heard a note which he called that of the night - warbler , a bird he had never iden- tified , had been in search of ...
... eye , and whose fine clear note Thoreau compared to that of a tanager which has got rid of its hoarseness . Presently he heard a note which he called that of the night - warbler , a bird he had never iden- tified , had been in search of ...
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... eyes . His visits to Maine were chiefly for love of the Indian . He had the satisfaction of seeing the manufacture of the bark - canoe , as well as of trying his hand in its management on the rapids . He was inquisitive about the making ...
... eyes . His visits to Maine were chiefly for love of the Indian . He had the satisfaction of seeing the manufacture of the bark - canoe , as well as of trying his hand in its management on the rapids . He was inquisitive about the making ...
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 229 - Still roll ; where all the aspects of misery Predominate; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress; And that unless above himself he can Erect himself, how poor a thing is man...
Page 248 - They tame but one another still: Early or late They stoop to fate, And must give up their murmuring breath, When they, pale captives, creep to death. The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds; Upon Death's purple altar now See, where the victor-victim bleeds: Your heads must come To the cold tomb; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet, and blossom in their dust.
Page 135 - NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the ramparts we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Page vii - Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days, Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes, And marching single in an endless file, Bring diadems and fagots in their hands. To each they offer gifts after his will, Bread, kingdoms, stars, and sky that holds them all.
Page 132 - ... to satisfy that idea of government which they have. Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. It is excellent, we must all allow. Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
Page 155 - I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it.
Page 136 - All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to and to resist the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
Page 149 - ... prison. The proper place to-day, the only place which Massachusetts has provided for her freer and less desponding spirits, is in her prisons, to be put out and locked out of the State by her own act, as they have already put themselves out by their principles. It is there that the fugitive slave, and the Mexican prisoner on parole, and the Indian come to plead the wrongs of his race...
Page 31 - The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them.
Page 232 - Some eighteen hundred years ago Christ was crucified; this morning, perchance, Captain Brown was hung. These are the two ends of a chain which is not without its links. He is not Old Brown any longer; he is an angel of light.