The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Miscellaneous piecesG. Bell & sons, 1905 |
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... virtue , and yet have been altogether out of his purpose to fasten it upon men in all times and all countries . But though the words , " Do this in remembrance of me , " do not occur in Matthew , Mark or John , and although it should be ...
... virtue , and yet have been altogether out of his purpose to fasten it upon men in all times and all countries . But though the words , " Do this in remembrance of me , " do not occur in Matthew , Mark or John , and although it should be ...
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... virtue , I call a worthy , a true commemoration . 4. The importance ascribed to this particular ordin- ance is not consistent with the spirit of Christianity . The general object and effect of the ordinance is un- exceptionable . It has ...
... virtue , I call a worthy , a true commemoration . 4. The importance ascribed to this particular ordin- ance is not consistent with the spirit of Christianity . The general object and effect of the ordinance is un- exceptionable . It has ...
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... virtues , his learning and gifts as a preacher , and adding to his influence the weight of a large estate.2 Persecution readily knits . friendship between its victims . Mr. Bulkeley having turned his estate into money and set his face ...
... virtues , his learning and gifts as a preacher , and adding to his influence the weight of a large estate.2 Persecution readily knits . friendship between its victims . Mr. Bulkeley having turned his estate into money and set his face ...
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... virtue , if they triumphed , triumphed in a fair field . And so be it an everlasting testimony for them , and so much ground of assurance of man's capacity for self - government . It is the consequence of this institution that not a ...
... virtue , if they triumphed , triumphed in a fair field . And so be it an everlasting testimony for them , and so much ground of assurance of man's capacity for self - government . It is the consequence of this institution that not a ...
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... virtues , was found joined to a dwindled soul . Master of all sorts of wood - craft , he seemed a part of the forest and the lake , and the secret of his amazing skill seemed to be that he partook of the nature and fierce instincts of ...
... virtues , was found joined to a dwindled soul . Master of all sorts of wood - craft , he seemed a part of the forest and the lake , and the secret of his amazing skill seemed to be that he partook of the nature and fierce instincts of ...
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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 82 - Only this my mind gave me, that every free and gentle spirit, without that oath, ought to be born a knight, nor needed to expect the gilt spur or the laying of a sword upon his shoulder to stir him up both by his counsel and his arms to secure and protect the weakness of any attempted chastity.