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" I admire still more than the saw-mill the skill which, on the sea-shore, makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn, and which thus engages the assistance of the moon, like a hired hand, to grind, and wind, and pump, and saw, and split stone, and... "
Library School Bulletin - Page 11
by New York State Library. School - 1917
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Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1870 - 304 pages
...the skill which, on the sea-shore, makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn, and which thus engages the assistance of the moon, like a hired hand,...that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labour, to hitch his waggon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves. That is the way...
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A Manual of Anthropology: Or, Science of Man, Based on Modern Research

Charles Bray - Anthropology - 1871 - 398 pages
...river never tires of turning his wheel: the river is good-natured and never hints an objection. * * " Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labour, to hitch his waggon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves. That is the way...
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A Manual of Anthropology: Or, Science of Man, Based on Modern Research

Charles Bray - Anthropology - 1871 - 386 pages
...river never tires of turning his wheel : the river is good-natured and never hints an objection. * * " Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labour, to hitch his waggon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves. That is the way...
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The Conduct of Life, and Society and Solitude

Ralph Waldo Emerson - Philosophy, American - 1883 - 558 pages
...the skill which, on the sea-shore, makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn, and which thus engages the assistance of the moon, like a hired hand,...that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labour, to hitch his waggon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves. That is the way...
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Society and solitude, 12 chapters

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 308 pages
...the skill which, on the sea-shore, makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn, and which thus engages the assistance of the moon, like a hired hand,...that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labour, to hitch his waggon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves. That is the way...
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Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...the skill which, on the sea-shore, makes the tides drive the wheels and grind corn, and which thus natural, and mediatorial and miraculous. Prayer that...craves a particular commodity, — anything less than labour, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves. That is the way...
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The science of man

Charles Bray - 1883 - 352 pages
...never tires of turning his wheel : the river is good-natured and never hints an objection. . . . " Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of his labour, to hitch his waggon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves. That is the way...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oliver Wendell Holmes - Literature - 1884 - 488 pages
...underscore it for italics, and doubly underscore it in the second extract for small capitals : — " Now that is the wisdom of a man, in every instance of hia labor, to hitch his wagon to a star, and see his chore done by the gods themselves." — " ' It...
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Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Issue 33

Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1886 - 548 pages
...tide drive the wheels, and grind corn, and which thus engages the assistance of the moon, like a fixed hand, to grind and wind and pump and saw and split stone and roll iron." Thus you see, by using these powers, he has become constantly better acquainted with them, his mind...
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Scribner's Magazine, Volume 82

Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1927 - 1018 pages
...makes the waves turn wheels and grind corn; makes the moon drive the tides like so many hired hands to grind and wind and pump and saw and split stone and roll iron. Now that is the best wisdom of a man in every instance of his labor to hitch his wagon to a star and see his chores...
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