The American ScholarAmerican Unitarian association, 1907 - 534 psl. |
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... true that every man , the rudest Prussian boor as well as von Humboldt , is indebted to mankind for his culture , to their past history and their existing in- stitutions , to their daily toil . Taking the whole cul- ture into the ...
... true that every man , the rudest Prussian boor as well as von Humboldt , is indebted to mankind for his culture , to their past history and their existing in- stitutions , to their daily toil . Taking the whole cul- ture into the ...
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... condition a great thought be true and revolutionary , it is hard to get it made a thing . Ideas go into a nun- nery , not a family . Phidias must keep his awful Jove only in his head ; there is no marble to 12 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR.
... condition a great thought be true and revolutionary , it is hard to get it made a thing . Ideas go into a nun- nery , not a family . Phidias must keep his awful Jove only in his head ; there is no marble to 12 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR.
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... true the whirlwind of an election , by the pressure of votes , may now and then take a very heavy body up to a great height . Yet it does not keep him from growing giddy and ridiculous while there , and after a few years lets him fall ...
... true the whirlwind of an election , by the pressure of votes , may now and then take a very heavy body up to a great height . Yet it does not keep him from growing giddy and ridiculous while there , and after a few years lets him fall ...
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... true we name streets and squares , towns and counties , after Franklin , but it is because he keeps the lightning from factories , churches , and barns ; tells us not " to give too much for the whistle , " and teaches " the way to make ...
... true we name streets and squares , towns and counties , after Franklin , but it is because he keeps the lightning from factories , churches , and barns ; tells us not " to give too much for the whistle , " and teaches " the way to make ...
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... and more complete , but not surpassing the simplicity and love- liness of that maiden flower of his poetic spring . We know how true it is that a man cannot criticise 66 what he cannot comprehend , nor comprehend either a EMERSON 57.
... and more complete , but not surpassing the simplicity and love- liness of that maiden flower of his poetic spring . We know how true it is that a man cannot criticise 66 what he cannot comprehend , nor comprehend either a EMERSON 57.
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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?