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Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays Selected by the Department of Rhetoric ... - Page 71
by University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 428 pages
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A Selection from the Best English Essays Illustrative of the History of ...

Sherwin Cody - English essays - 1903 - 476 pages
...gentlest asinine expression. There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history ; I mean " the...not spontaneously moved, but moved by a low usurping wilailness, grow tight about the outline of the face with the most disagreeable sensation. For non-conformity...
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The Essay on Self-reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Self-confidence - 1905 - 70 pages
...gentlest asinine expression. There is a mortifying experience in particular which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean, "the foolish...face of praise," the forced smile which we put on in 12 company where we do not feel at ease in answer to conversation which does not interest us. The muscles,...
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The Emerson Birthday-book ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Birthday books - 1906 - 200 pages
...power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried. I "HERE is a mortifying experience ... I mean " the foolish face of praise," the forced smile...answer to conversation which does not interest us. ]7 VERY act rewards itself, or in other words integrates itself, in a twofold manner : first, in the...
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Select Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...gentlest asinine expression. There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history ; I mean " the...face of praise," the forced smile which we put on in 5 company where we do not feel at ease, in answer to conversation which does not interest us. The muscles,...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 5

Literature - 1909 - 540 pages
...gentlest asinine expression. There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history ; I mean " the...wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face, and make the most disagreeable sensation; a sensation of rebuke and warning which no brave young man...
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Select Essays and Addresses: Including The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...to which we adhere. We come to wear one cut of face and figure, and acquire by degrees the gentlest expression. There is a mortifying experience in particular,...answer to conversation which does not interest us. 5 The muscles, not spontaneously moved but moved by a low usurping willfulness, grow tight about the...
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The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation,

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Character - 1911 - 148 pages
...gentlest asinine3 expression. There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history ; I mean " the...answer to conversation which does not interest us. The mus20 cles, not spontaneously moved, but moved by a low usurping willfulness, grow tight about the...
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English Prose: A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice of ...

Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - English language - 1913 - 512 pages
...gentlest asinine expression. There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean " the foolish face of praise," 30 the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease, in answer to conversation...
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College Life

Maurice Garland Fulton - Education, Higher - 1914 - 568 pages
...gentlest asinine expression. There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean "the foolish...not spontaneously moved but moved by a low usurping willfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face, and make the most disagreeable sensation; a...
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Emerson's Essays on Manners, Self-reliance, Compensation, Nature, Friendship

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...asinine expression. There is a 30 mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean 'the foolish...wilfulness, grow tight about the outline of the face, and make the most disagreeable sensation ; a sensation of rebuke and warning which no brave young man...
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