The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Miscellaneous piecesG. Bell & sons, 1905 |
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... whole of his literary life , for the earliest piece is dated 1832 , and the latest 1882 . All the interest and the defects inseparable from such a collection will be found in the papers now presented . Owing to the large amount of new ...
... whole of his literary life , for the earliest piece is dated 1832 , and the latest 1882 . All the interest and the defects inseparable from such a collection will be found in the papers now presented . Owing to the large amount of new ...
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... whole transaction is passed over without notice . Now observe the facts . Two of the Evangelists , namely , Matthew and John , were of the twelve disciples , and were present on that occasion . Neither of them drops the slightest ...
... whole transaction is passed over without notice . Now observe the facts . Two of the Evangelists , namely , Matthew and John , were of the twelve disciples , and were present on that occasion . Neither of them drops the slightest ...
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... whole world . Without presuming to fix precisely the purpose in the mind of Jesus , you will see that many opinions may be entertained of his intention , all consistent with the opinion that he did not design a perpetual ordinance . He ...
... whole world . Without presuming to fix precisely the purpose in the mind of Jesus , you will see that many opinions may be entertained of his intention , all consistent with the opinion that he did not design a perpetual ordinance . He ...
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... whole world . In this manner we may see clearly enough how this ancient ordinance got its footing among the early Christians , and this single expectation of a speedy reappearance of a temporal Messiah , which kept its influence even ...
... whole world . In this manner we may see clearly enough how this ancient ordinance got its footing among the early Christians , and this single expectation of a speedy reappearance of a temporal Messiah , which kept its influence even ...
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... whole language you use conveys that impression . But if you read the New Testament as I do , you do not believe he did . 2. It has seemed to me that the use of this ordinance tends to produce confusion in our views of the relation of ...
... whole language you use conveys that impression . But if you read the New Testament as I do , you do not believe he did . 2. It has seemed to me that the use of this ordinance tends to produce confusion in our views of the relation 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.