The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lectures and biographical sketchesHoughton Mifflin, 1904 |
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... better for them all to remain ; if he flew on , they might proceed ; but if he flew back , they must return . ' The Jew said nothing , but bent his bow and shot the bird to the ground . This act offended the augur and some others , and ...
... better for them all to remain ; if he flew on , they might proceed ; but if he flew back , they must return . ' The Jew said nothing , but bent his bow and shot the bird to the ground . This act offended the augur and some others , and ...
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... better . It is the height of the ani- mal ; below the region of the divine . Power as such is not known to the angels . Great men feel that they are so by sacrificing their selfishness and falling back on what is hu- mane ; in ...
... better . It is the height of the ani- mal ; below the region of the divine . Power as such is not known to the angels . Great men feel that they are so by sacrificing their selfishness and falling back on what is hu- mane ; in ...
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... better with our love of mak- ing a figure . " I told the Duke of Newcastle , " says Bubb Dodington in his Memoirs , " that it must end one way or another , it must not remain as it was ; for I was determined to make some sort of a ...
... better with our love of mak- ing a figure . " I told the Duke of Newcastle , " says Bubb Dodington in his Memoirs , " that it must end one way or another , it must not remain as it was ; for I was determined to make some sort of a ...
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... better than any royal patronage ; better than any premium on race ; better than any statute elevating families to hereditary dis- tinction , or any class to sacerdotal education and power . The verdict of battles will best prove the ...
... better than any royal patronage ; better than any premium on race ; better than any statute elevating families to hereditary dis- tinction , or any class to sacerdotal education and power . The verdict of battles will best prove the ...
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... better not put yourself in places where not to have it is to be a public enemy . - The expectation and claims of mankind indi- cate the duties of this class . Some service they must pay . We do not expect them to be saints , and it is ...
... better not put yourself in places where not to have it is to be a public enemy . - The expectation and claims of mankind indi- cate the duties of this class . Some service they must pay . We do not expect them to be saints , and it is ...
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action Æschylus aristocracy beauty believe born Boston boys Brook Farm called Carlyle character church Concord conversation Dæmon delight Demonology divine dreams duty Emerson England essay eternal eyes F. B. Sanborn fact feel force friends genius give Goethe Greek Harvard College heart Heaven Henry Thoreau hero Hoar honor hope human inspired intellectual journal knew labor laws lecture letters live look manners Margaret Fuller Massachusetts means ment mind moral Nature never noble Old North Bridge opinion passage persons Pindar Plato Plotinus Plutarch poem poet poetry Ralph Waldo Emerson religion religious Ripley Samuel Hoar scholar secret seems sense sentiment society soul speak spirit talent teach Theodore Parker things Thoreau thought tion true truth universal virtue whilst wise wish words write wrote young youth
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Página 463 - I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before; I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore.
Página 506 - O for a blast of that dread horn, On Fontarabian echoes borne, That to King Charles did come, When Rowland brave, and Olivier, And every paladin and peer, On Roncesvalles died...
Página 442 - There was somewhat military in his nature not to be subdued, always manly and able, but rarely tender, as if he did not feel himself except in opposition. He wanted a fallacy to expose, a blunder to pillory, I may say, required a little sense of victory, a roll of the drum, to call his powers into full exercise.
Página 542 - Yourself a new-born bard of the Holy Ghost, — cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.
Página 468 - The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them.
Página 535 - He spoke of miracles ; for he felt that man's life was a miracle, and all that man doth, and he knew that this daily miracle shines as the character ascends. But the word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression ; it is Monster.
Página 330 - Perhaps they only agreed in having fallen upon Coleridge and Wordsworth and Goethe, then on Carlyle, with pleasure and sympathy. Otherwise, their education and reading were not marked, but had the American superficialness, and their studies were solitary. I suppose all of them were surprised at this rumor of a school or sect, and certainly at the name of Transcendentalism, given nobody knows by whom, or when it was first applied. As these persons became in the common chances of society acquainted...
Página 93 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, Are yet a master-light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence...
Página 441 - They make their pride," he said, " in making their dinner cost much ; I make my pride in making my dinner cost little." 1 When asked at table what dish he preferred, he answered,
Página 505 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can...