The American ScholarAmerican Unitarian association, 1907 - 534 psl. |
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... institutions , and the youth of the people all excite to premature and excessive prodigality of effort . The body takes a mortgage on the spendthrift spirit , de- mands certain regular periodic payments , and will one day foreclose for ...
... institutions , and the youth of the people all excite to premature and excessive prodigality of effort . The body takes a mortgage on the spendthrift spirit , de- mands certain regular periodic payments , and will one day foreclose for ...
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... institution , an idea organized in men . The children of the mind must be exposed to die , or if left alive their feet are cramped so that they cannot go alone ; useless , joyless , and unwed , they remain in their father's house . The ...
... institution , an idea organized in men . The children of the mind must be exposed to die , or if left alive their feet are cramped so that they cannot go alone ; useless , joyless , and unwed , they remain in their father's house . The ...
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... institution , no special zeal for Christianity " which the churches often tell us de- mands it , but solely because the Americans have in- vested some twelve hundred millions of dollars in the bodies and souls of their countrymen , and ...
... institution , no special zeal for Christianity " which the churches often tell us de- mands it , but solely because the Americans have in- vested some twelve hundred millions of dollars in the bodies and souls of their countrymen , and ...
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... institutions . Here the greatest man stands nearest to the people , and without a mediator speaks to them face to face . This is a new thing : in the classic nations oratory was for the people , so was the drama and the ballad ; that ...
... institutions . Here the greatest man stands nearest to the people , and without a mediator speaks to them face to face . This is a new thing : in the classic nations oratory was for the people , so was the drama and the ballad ; that ...
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... institutions of England are cherished here , so her best literature ; and it is not sur- prising that we are content with this rich inheritance of artistic toil . In many things we are independent , but in much that relates to the ...
... institutions of England are cherished here , so her best literature ; and it is not sur- prising that we are content with this rich inheritance of artistic toil . In many things we are independent , but in much that relates to the ...
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159 psl. - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
71 psl. - Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.
92 psl. - Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old ; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe...
418 psl. - ... verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit aut humana parum cavit natura.
92 psl. - These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned ; And the same power that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within.
94 psl. - Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.
71 psl. - If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore ; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown ! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.
59 psl. - tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you; for ye are A beauty and a mystery, and create In us such love and reverence from afar, That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star.
414 psl. - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his...
77 psl. - The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?