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Gallery of notable men and women, compiled by the editor of 'The treasury of ... - Pagina 168
door Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1879 - 224 pagina’s
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The New quarterly review, and digest of current literature, Volume 5

1856 - 504 pagina’s
...cliff-like brow, self-possessed, and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation in easy con~mand; clinging to his northern accent with evident relish;...with his Lars and Lemurs, and it was very pleasant to leam what was predestined to be a pretty mythology. Few were the objects and lonely the man, " not...
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English Traits

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 200 pagina’s
...gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed, and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation in easy command; clinging to his northern accent with...with his Lars and Lemurs, and it was very pleasant ~fco learn what was predestined to be a prettv mythology. Few were the objects and lonely the man,...
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English Traits

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 324 pagina’s
...gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed, and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation in easy command ; clinging to his northern accent with...relish; full of lively anecdote, and with a streaming humor, which floated every thing he looked upon. His talk playfully exalting the familial objects,...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays ..., Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pagina’s
...gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, selfpossessed, and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation in easy command ; clinging to his northern accent with...anecdote, and with a streaming humour, which floated evervthing he looked upon. His talk playfully exalting the familiar objects, put the companion at once...
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Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 500 pagina’s
...gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, selfpossessed, and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation in easy command; clinging to his northern accent with...relish; full of lively anecdote, and with a streaming humor, which floated everything he looked upon. His talk playfully exalting the familiar objects, put...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 504 pagina’s
...gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, selfpossessed, and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation in easy command ; clinging to his northern accent with...relish ; full of lively anecdote, and with a streaming humor, which. floated everything he looked upon. His talk playfully exalting the familiar objects,...
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On the Choice of Books

Thomas Carlyle - 1871 - 256 pagina’s
...gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, self-possessed, and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation in easy command ; clinging to his northern accent with...evident relish ; full of lively anecdote, and with a 28 VISIT FROM EMERSON. [1833. t streaming humour, which floated everything he looked upon. His talk...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In Two Volumes

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 500 pagina’s
...evident relish ; full of lively anecdote, and with a streaming humor, which floated everything lie looked upon. His talk playfully exalting the familiar...Lars and Lemurs, and it was very pleasant to learn wrhat was predestined to be a pretty mythology, j Few were the objects and lonely the man, " not a...
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Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 508 pagina’s
...gaunt, with a cliff-like brow, selfpossessed, and holding his extraordinary powers of conversation in easy command ; clinging to his northern accent with evident relish ; full of lively anecdote, aud with a streaming humor, which floated everything he looked upon. His talk playfully exalting the...
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Pleasant memories: a woman's thoughts and life-work

John Baillie - 1878 - 462 pagina’s
...Tall and gaunt ; with a cliff-like brow ; clinging with an ' evident relish to his Northern accent ; full of lively anecdote, and with a streaming humour which " floated everything he looked upon," — he put his visitor into ecstasies at once : he was in the presence of a true "representative man."...
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