The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men [Vol. 4]

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.

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Boston ; New York :: Houghton, Mifflin,

[1903-1904].

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"The complete works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men [Vol. 4]." In the digital collection The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/4957107.0004.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.

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Page 155, note 2. These lines are borrowed from George Herbert's poem entitled "Affliction." When a youth he longed to leave Cambridge University, but his mother would not permit him to do so.

                      
                        "Whereas my birth and spirit rather took
                      
                        The way that takes to town:
                      
                        Thou didst betray me to a lingering book,
                      
                        And wrapt me in a gown:
                      
                        I was entangled in a world of strife;
                      
                        Before I had the power to change my life."