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Rudiments of Public Speaking and Debate: Or, Hints on the Application of Logic - Page 54
by George Jacob Holyoake - 1853 - 129 pages
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...imitation ? What makes a work original ? In architecture what must be considered ? 43. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every...you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can,...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every...you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can,...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Essays - 1841 - 324 pages
...satisfied also. Jnsist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with tne cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but...you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can,...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...these will findjhemselves fitted, jand taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every...you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can,...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every...you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can,...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every...you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can,...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every...you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can,...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...these ifill find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whnle life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another you have only an extemporaneous, half...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...these wffl find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every...you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can,...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...these will find themselves fitted, and taste and sentiment will be satisfied also. Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every...you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can,...
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