Emerson at Home and AbroadTrübner & Company, 1883 - 309 psl. |
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... becomes a strong thing if it be a true thing . Puritanism was only despicable , laughable then ; but nobody can manage to laugh at it now . It is one of the strongest things under the sun at present . " Little by little Plymouth Rock ...
... becomes a strong thing if it be a true thing . Puritanism was only despicable , laughable then ; but nobody can manage to laugh at it now . It is one of the strongest things under the sun at present . " Little by little Plymouth Rock ...
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... become an equal citizen by having also his forty acres , on which they are to build him a house . And it is contracted that if for any reason he should be dismissed from or com- pelled to separate from the church , this property was to ...
... become an equal citizen by having also his forty acres , on which they are to build him a house . And it is contracted that if for any reason he should be dismissed from or com- pelled to separate from the church , this property was to ...
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... become the leader of the theo- logical revolution afterwards associated with him , but he was the most eloquent preacher in Boston . He was ordained minister of a congregation there in 1803 , the year of Emerson's birth , at the age of ...
... become the leader of the theo- logical revolution afterwards associated with him , but he was the most eloquent preacher in Boston . He was ordained minister of a congregation there in 1803 , the year of Emerson's birth , at the age of ...
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... become ( 1810 ) President of the university , which entered upon a new era - less religious and more scholarly - under his administration . He greatly enlarged its course of studies , increased the number of professorships , and ...
... become ( 1810 ) President of the university , which entered upon a new era - less religious and more scholarly - under his administration . He greatly enlarged its course of studies , increased the number of professorships , and ...
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... become , maintained that it was a great art . He recalled Saadi's gratitude for the one gift Allah had given him- " sweetness of speech " -and thought that many discords and controversies might be avoided if preachers and public ...
... become , maintained that it was a great art . He recalled Saadi's gratitude for the one gift Allah had given him- " sweetness of speech " -and thought that many discords and controversies might be avoided if preachers and public ...
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98 psl. - Then each applied to each that fatal knife, Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole. Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life...
97 psl. - Meek young men grow up in libraries believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.
127 psl. - OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. 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?
211 psl. - I know not whether these ancestors of mine bethought themselves to repent and ask pardon of Heaven for their cruelties, or whether they are now groaning under the heavy consequences of them, in another state of being. At all events, I the present writer, as their representative, hereby take shame upon myself for their sakes, and pray that any curse incurred by them — as I have heard, and as the dreary and unprosperous condition of the race for many a long year back would argue to exist — may...
127 psl. - Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us by the powers they supply, to action proportioned to nature, why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?
118 psl. - ... behind nature, throughout nature, spirit is present; one and not compound it does not act upon us from without, that is, in space and time, but spiritually, or through ourselves: therefore, that spirit, that is, the Supreme Being, does not build up nature around us but puts it forth through us, as the life of the tree puts forth new branches and leaves through the pores of the old.
117 psl. - A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings, The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.
304 psl. - A few strong instincts and a few plain rules Among the herdsmen of the Alps, have wrought More for mankind at this unhappy day Than all the pride of intellect and thought...
133 psl. - I look for the new Teacher that shall follow so far those shining laws that he shall see them come full circle ; shall see their rounding complete grace ; shall see the world to be the mirror of the soul ; * shall see the identity of the law of gravitation with purity of heart ; and shall show that the Ought, that Duty, is one thing with Science, with Beauty, and with Joy.
133 psl. - I look for the hour when that supreme Beauty, which ravished the souls of those Eastern men, and chiefly of those Hebrews, and through their lips spoke oracles to all time, shall speak in the West also.