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The conduct of life and Society and solitude
The conduct of life and Society and solitude Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: of paper costs so much, and you may have it made up in any pattern you fancy. There is in all our dealings a self-regulation that supersedes chaffering. You w... more »ill sx--.it a house, but must have it cheap. The owner can reduce the rent, but so ho incapacitates himself from making proper repairs, and the tenant gets not the house ho would have, but a worse one ; besides that, a relation a little injurious is established between landlord and tenant You dismiss your labourer, saying: " Patrick, I shall send for you as soon as I cannot do without you." Patrick goes off contented, for ho knows that tho weeds will grow with tho potatoes, tho vines must be planted next week, and, however unwilling you may be, tho cantelopes, crook-nocks, and cucumbers will send for him. Who but must wish that all labour and value should stand on tho same simple and surly market 1 If it is the best of its kind, it will We must have joiner, locksmith, planter, priest, poet, doctor, cook, weaver, ostler; each in turn, through the year. If a St Michael's pear sells for a shilling, it cost a shilling to raise it. If, in Boston, tho best securities offer twelve per cent for money, they have just six per cent of insecurity. ' You may not see that tho fine pear costs you a shilling, but it costs tho community so much. The shilling represents tho number of enemies the pear has, and tho amount of risk in ripening it The price of coal shows tho narrowness of the coal-field, and a compulsory confinement of tho minors to a certain district All salaries are reckonedon contingent, as well as on actual services. " If tho wind were always south-west by west," said the skipper, "women might tako ships to sea." One might say, that all things are of one price; that nothing is cheap or dear; and that the appar...« less