The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Miscellaneous piecesG. Bell & sons, 1905 |
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... become like God . And a true disciple of Jesus will receive the light he gives most thankfully ; but the thanks he offers , and which an exalted being will accept , are not compli- ments , commemorations , but the use of that ...
... become like God . And a true disciple of Jesus will receive the light he gives most thankfully ; but the thanks he offers , and which an exalted being will accept , are not compli- ments , commemorations , but the use of that ...
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... becomes me to ad- minister it . I am clearly of opinion I ought not . This discourse has already been so far extended that I can only say that the reason of my determination is shortly this - It is my desire , in the office of a ...
... becomes me to ad- minister it . I am clearly of opinion I ought not . This discourse has already been so far extended that I can only say that the reason of my determination is shortly this - It is my desire , in the office of a ...
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... becoming to commemorate the planting of the first inland town . The sentiment is just , and the practice is wise . Our ears shall not be deaf to the voice of time . We will review the deeds of our fathers , and pass that just verdict on ...
... becoming to commemorate the planting of the first inland town . The sentiment is just , and the practice is wise . Our ears shall not be deaf to the voice of time . We will review the deeds of our fathers , and pass that just verdict on ...
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... become essentially the same assembly they are this day . By this course of events , Concord and the other plantations found themselves separate and independent of Boston , with certain rights of their own , which , what they were , time ...
... become essentially the same assembly they are this day . By this course of events , Concord and the other plantations found themselves separate and independent of Boston , with certain rights of their own , which , what they were , time ...
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... become old , but was engaged in executing his grand conceptions in the ineffaceable architecture of St. Peter's . Above all men whose history we know , Michelangelo presents us with the perfect image of the artist . He is an eminent ...
... become old , but was engaged in executing his grand conceptions in the ineffaceable architecture of St. Peter's . Above all men whose history we know , Michelangelo presents us with the perfect image of the artist . He is an eminent ...
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American appear beauty Ben Jonson better Boston Bret Harte Byron character Christian church civil command Concord Dæmon delight divine dreams duty earth England English eternal expression eyes F. B. Sanborn fact fear feel fire force friends genius give Goethe Granville Sharpe heart heroes Herrick honour human Indian intellectual interest Jean Ingelow John Brown Jonson Julius Cæsar justice labour learned liberty literature living look mankind Massachusetts Michelangelo Milton mind moral nation nature negro never noble opinion persons planters Plato Plutarch poems poet poetic poetry political poor prayer race Records religion religious rich Saadi Sachem seems sense sentiment Shakespeare Simon Willard slavery slaves society Song soul speak spirit talent taste things thou thought tion town true truth verses virtue whilst words Wordsworth write
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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...