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... and the crises of his life refer to national crises . Every revolution was first a
thought in one man ' s mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man ,
it is the key to that era . Every reform was once a private opinion , and when it
shall ...
... and the crises of his life refer to national crises . Every revolution was first a
thought in one man ' s mind , and when the same thought occurs to another man ,
it is the key to that era . Every reform was once a private opinion , and when it
shall ...
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There is a certain fatal dislocation in our relation to nature , distorting all our
modes of living , and making every law our enemy , which seems at last to have
aroused all the wit and virtue in the world to ponder the question of Reform . We
must ...
There is a certain fatal dislocation in our relation to nature , distorting all our
modes of living , and making every law our enemy , which seems at last to have
aroused all the wit and virtue in the world to ponder the question of Reform . We
must ...
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All reform aims , in some one particular , to let the great soul have its way through
us ; in other words , to engage us to obey . Of this pure nature every man is at
some time sensible . Language cannot paint it with his colours . It is too subtle .
All reform aims , in some one particular , to let the great soul have its way through
us ; in other words , to engage us to obey . Of this pure nature every man is at
some time sensible . Language cannot paint it with his colours . It is too subtle .
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In my daily work I incline to repeat my old steps , and do not believe in remedial
force , in the power of change and reform . But some Petrarch or Ariosto , filled
with the new wine of his imagination , writes me an ode , or a brisk romance , full
of ...
In my daily work I incline to repeat my old steps , and do not believe in remedial
force , in the power of change and reform . But some Petrarch or Ariosto , filled
with the new wine of his imagination , writes me an ode , or a brisk romance , full
of ...
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The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues , or what
we have always esteemed such , into the same pit that has consumed our
grosser vices . Forgive his crimes , forgive his virtues too . Those smaller faults ,
half ...
The terror of reform is the discovery that we must cast away our virtues , or what
we have always esteemed such , into the same pit that has consumed our
grosser vices . Forgive his crimes , forgive his virtues too . Those smaller faults ,
half ...
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Informações bibliográficas
| Título | Essays, Lectures and Orations |
| Autor | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Editora | W. S. Orr & Company, 1848 |
| Original de | Oxford University |
| Digitalizado | 10 out. 2006 |
| Num. págs. | 364 páginas |
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