The Conduct of Life

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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anglais

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Complete work

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Written by the author

THE CONDUCT OF LIFE. BY R. W. EMERSON. BOSTON: JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY, LATE TICKNOR & FIELDS, AND FIELDS, OSGOOD, & Co. 1871. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by R. W. EMERSON, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts CONTENTS. I. Fate II. Power III. Wealth IV. Culture V. Behavior VI. Worship VII. Considerations by the Way VIII. Beauty IX. Illusions I. FATE. Delicate omens traced in air To the lone bard true witness bare; Birds with auguries on their wings Chanted undeceiving things Him to beckon, him to warn; Well might then the poet scorn To learn of scribe or courier Hints writ in vaster character; And on his mind, at dawn of day, Soft shadows of the evening lay. For the prevision is allied Unto the thing so signified; Or say, the foresight that awaits Is the same Genius that creates. FATE. It chanced during one winter, a few years ago, that our cities were bent Soft shadows of the evening lay. For the prevision is allied Unto the thing so signified; Or say, the foresight that awaits Is the same Genius that creates. FATE. It chanced during one winter, a few years ago, that our cities were bent on discussing the theory of the Age. By an odd coincidence, four or five noted men were each reading a discourse to the citizens of Boston or New York, on the Spirit of the Times. It so happened that the subject had the same prom

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