Emerson's Complete Works: Lectures and biographical sketchesHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 |
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... pure blood , or on the largest holder in the three- per - cents . The English government and people , or the French government , may easily make mistakes ; but Nature makes none . Every mark and scutch- eon ARISTOCRACY . 39.
... pure blood , or on the largest holder in the three- per - cents . The English government and people , or the French government , may easily make mistakes ; but Nature makes none . Every mark and scutch- eon ARISTOCRACY . 39.
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... pure reverence for character , a new re- spect for the sacredness of the individual man , is that antidote which must correct in our country the disgraceful deference to public opinion , and the in- sane subordination of the end to the ...
... pure reverence for character , a new re- spect for the sacredness of the individual man , is that antidote which must correct in our country the disgraceful deference to public opinion , and the in- sane subordination of the end to the ...
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... pure and perceiving , is not wilfulness . When a man , through stubbornness , insists to do this or that , something absurd or whimsical , only because he will , he is weak ; he blows with his lips against the tempest , he dams the ...
... pure and perceiving , is not wilfulness . When a man , through stubbornness , insists to do this or that , something absurd or whimsical , only because he will , he is weak ; he blows with his lips against the tempest , he dams the ...
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... pure and safe to each ; and all receiving from abroad must be controlled by this immense reservation . It happens now and then , in the ages , that a soul is born which has no weakness of self , which offers no impediment to the Divine ...
... pure and safe to each ; and all receiving from abroad must be controlled by this immense reservation . It happens now and then , in the ages , that a soul is born which has no weakness of self , which offers no impediment to the Divine ...
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... pure vision , but will be enacted . It affirms not only its truth , but its supremacy . It is not only insight , as science , as fancy , as imagination is ; or an entertainment , as friendship and poetry are ; but it is a sovereign rule ...
... pure vision , but will be enacted . It affirms not only its truth , but its supremacy . It is not only insight , as science , as fancy , as imagination is ; or an entertainment , as friendship and poetry are ; but it is a sovereign rule ...
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Página 96 - 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: truths that wake, To perish never...
Página 98 - Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — "Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.
Página 230 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can...
Página 445 - ... combination under your eye, is of course comic to those who do not share the philosopher's perception of identity. To him there was no such thing as size. The pond was a small ocean; the Atlantic, a large Walden Pond. He referred every minute fact to cosmical laws. Though he meant to be just, he seemed haunted by a certain chronic assumption that the science of the day pretended completeness, and he had just found out that the savans had neglected to discriminate a particular botanical variety,...
Página 422 - He was bred to no profession ; he never married ; he lived alone ; he never went to church ; he never voted ; he refused to pay a tax to the State ; he ate no flesh, he drank no wine, he never knew the use of tobacco ; and, though a naturalist, he used neither trap nor gun.
Página 429 - I was planting forest trees, and had procured half a peck of acorns, he said that only a small portion of them would be sound, and proceeded to examine them and select the sound ones. But finding this took time, he said, "I think if you put them all into water the good ones will sink;" which experiment we tried with success.
Página 444 - The habit of a realist to find things the reverse of their appearance inclined him to put every statement in a paradox. \ A certain habit of antagonism defaced his earlier writings, — a trick of rhetoric not quite outgrown in his later, of substituting for the obvious word and thought its diametrical opposite. He praised wild mountains and winter forests for their domestic air, in snow and ice he would find sultriness, and commended the wilderness for resembling Rome and Paris. " It was so dry,...
Página 449 - The scale on which his studies proceeded was so large as to require longevity, and we were the less prepared for his sudden disappearance. The country knows not yet, or in the least part, how great a son it has lost. It seems an injury that he should leave in the midst...
Página 432 - Visits were offered him from respectful parties, but he declined them. Admiring friends offered to carry him at their own cost to the Yellowstone River — to the West Indies — to South America.
Página 447 - By it he detected earthiness. He delighted in echoes, and said they were almost the only kind of kindred voices that he heard. He loved Nature so well, was so happy in her solitude, that he became very jealous of cities and the sad work which their refinements and artifices made with man and his dwelling. The axe was always destroying his forest. "Thank God," he said, "they cannot cut down the clouds!