BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge

KL 5680
AL 1323.349.4

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Copyright, 1865 and 1876,

BY TICKNOR & FIELDS AND RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Copyright, 1883,

BY EDWARD W. EMERSON.

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The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass, U. S. A.
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