The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Lectures and biographical sketchesHoughton Mifflin, 1904 |
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... faith is familiar in one form , that often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success ; that children and young persons come off safe from casualties that would have proved danger- ous to wiser DEMONOLOGY 15.
... faith is familiar in one form , that often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success ; that children and young persons come off safe from casualties that would have proved danger- ous to wiser DEMONOLOGY 15.
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... young will be forsaken ; but he is fast approaching the age when the sub - miraculous external protection and leading are withdrawn and he is committed to his own care . The young man takes a leap in the dark and alights safe . As he ...
... young will be forsaken ; but he is fast approaching the age when the sub - miraculous external protection and leading are withdrawn and he is committed to his own care . The young man takes a leap in the dark and alights safe . As he ...
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... young men who are revolving plans and forming resolutions for the future , is the spirit of honor , the wish to be gentlemen . They do not yet covet political power , nor any ex- uberance of wealth , wealth that costs too much ; nor do ...
... young men who are revolving plans and forming resolutions for the future , is the spirit of honor , the wish to be gentlemen . They do not yet covet political power , nor any ex- uberance of wealth , wealth that costs too much ; nor do ...
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... young adventurer finds that the relations . of society , the position of classes , irk and sting him , and he lends himself to each malignant party that assails what is eminent . He will one day know that this is not removable , but a ...
... young adventurer finds that the relations . of society , the position of classes , irk and sting him , and he lends himself to each malignant party that assails what is eminent . He will one day know that this is not removable , but a ...
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... young writers who have written their first book , they say , Publish it by all means ; so only can you certainly know its quality . But we venture to put any man in any place . It is curious how negligent the public is of the essential ...
... young writers who have written their first book , they say , Publish it by all means ; so only can you certainly know its quality . But we venture to put any man in any place . It is curious how negligent the public is of the essential ...
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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...