Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Emerson” in chapter 9, page 214 of Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters:
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He was rather a martyr to his own conception of the obligations imposed by nationality.
When these obligations run counter to human realities, the theories of statesmen must give way. Emerson could not refute that logic of Webster's argument for the Fugitive Slave Law, but he could at least record
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