The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Miscellaneous piecesG. Bell & sons, 1905 |
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... Plato has said upon this subject ; but this I know very well , that , in a long intimacy , I never heard from his mouth a single word that was not perfectly decorous and having for its object to extinguish in youth every improper desire ...
... Plato has said upon this subject ; but this I know very well , that , in a long intimacy , I never heard from his mouth a single word that was not perfectly decorous and having for its object to extinguish in youth every improper desire ...
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... Plato and Paul and Plutarch , St. Augustine , Spinoza , Chapman , Beaumont and Fletcher , Donne and Sir Thomas Browne , beside its own riches ? Our presses groan every year with new editions of all the select pieces of the first of ...
... Plato and Paul and Plutarch , St. Augustine , Spinoza , Chapman , Beaumont and Fletcher , Donne and Sir Thomas Browne , beside its own riches ? Our presses groan every year with new editions of all the select pieces of the first of ...
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... Plato and Xenophon , out of our admiration of Bishop Patrick , or " Lucas on Happiness , " or " Lucas on Holiness , " or even Barrow's Sermons . Yet a man may love a paradox without either losing his wit or his honesty . A less ...
... Plato and Xenophon , out of our admiration of Bishop Patrick , or " Lucas on Happiness , " or " Lucas on Holiness , " or even Barrow's Sermons . Yet a man may love a paradox without either losing his wit or his honesty . A less ...
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... Plato , we find this petition in the mouth of Socrates : " O gracious Pan and ye other gods who preside over this place ! grant that I may be beautiful within ; and that those external things which I have may be such as may best agree 1 ...
... Plato , we find this petition in the mouth of Socrates : " O gracious Pan and ye other gods who preside over this place ! grant that I may be beautiful within ; and that those external things which I have may be such as may best agree 1 ...
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... Plato is the purple ancient , and Bacon and Milton the moderns of the richest strains . Burke sometimes reaches to that exuberant fullness , though deficient in depth . Carlyle , in his strange , half - mad way , has entered the Field ...
... Plato is the purple ancient , and Bacon and Milton the moderns of the richest strains . Burke sometimes reaches to that exuberant fullness , though deficient in depth . Carlyle , in his strange , half - mad way , has entered the Field ...
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Página 309 - 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 79 - But to return to our own institute; besides these constant exercises at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Página 310 - 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 84 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Página 81 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Página 88 - Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad...
Página 257 - I admire the truthfulness and candor of the greater portion of the witnesses who have testified in this case) — had I so interfered in behalf of the rich, the powerful, the intelligent, the so-called great, or in behalf of any of their friends...
Página 86 - Latin ; as if the learned grammatical pen that wrote it would cast no ink without Latin ; or perhaps, as they thought, because no vulgar tongue was worthy to express the pure conceit of an imprimatur ; but rather, as I hope, for that our English, the language of men ever famous and foremost in the achievements of liberty, will not easily find servile letters enow to spell such a dictatory presumption Englished.
Página 90 - But herein to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid rules of civil government, In their majestic unaffected style, Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome. In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so, What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat; These only with our law best form a king.
Página 83 - Those morning haunts are where they should be, at home ; not sleeping, or concocting the surfeits of an irregular feast, but up and stirring, in winter, often ere the sound of any bell awake men to labor or devotion ; in summer, as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary, or memory have its perfect fraught ; then with useful and generous labors preserving the body's health and hardiness...