Essays and Poems of EmersonHarcourt, Brace, 1921 - 525 páginas |
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... whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice , I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart . " In his Journal of 1833-5 he wrote : " The life of this world has a limited worth in my eyes ...
... whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice , I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart . " In his Journal of 1833-5 he wrote : " The life of this world has a limited worth in my eyes ...
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... whole relation to each without squirming . That will be something . " Commenting , in " Life and Letters in New England , " on a socialistic scheme for imposing economic salvation on the world from No. 200 Broadway , he surmises that it ...
... whole relation to each without squirming . That will be something . " Commenting , in " Life and Letters in New England , " on a socialistic scheme for imposing economic salvation on the world from No. 200 Broadway , he surmises that it ...
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... Whole Floras , all Linnæus's and Buffon's volumes , are dry catalogues of facts ; but the most trivial of these facts , the habit of a plant , the organs , or work , or noise of an insect , applied to the illustration of a fact in ...
... Whole Floras , all Linnæus's and Buffon's volumes , are dry catalogues of facts ; but the most trivial of these facts , the habit of a plant , the organs , or work , or noise of an insect , applied to the illustration of a fact in ...
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... whole . of nature is a metaphor , of the human mind . The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass . " The visible world and the relation of its parts , is the dial plate of the invisible . " . The ...
... whole . of nature is a metaphor , of the human mind . The laws of moral nature answer to those of matter as face to face in a glass . " The visible world and the relation of its parts , is the dial plate of the invisible . " . The ...
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... whole character and fortune of the individual are affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the understanding ; for example , in the perception of differences . Therefore is Space , and therefore Time , that man may know that ...
... whole character and fortune of the individual are affected by the least inequalities in the culture of the understanding ; for example , in the perception of differences . Therefore is Space , and therefore Time , that man may know that ...
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Página 450 - Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe...
Página 470 - IF the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near ; Shadow and sunlight are the same ; /...,'..'. The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame. They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
Página 29 - The charm dissolves apace ; And as the morning steals upon the night, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason.
Página 150 - Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Página 31 - I was there ; when he set a compass upon the face of the depth ; when he established the clouds above ; when he strengthened the fountains of the deep ; when he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment ; when he appointed the foundations of the earth, then I was by him, as one brought up with him ; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him...
Página 297 - Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function. Living is the functionary. The stream retreats to its source. A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
Página 512 - BY the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.
Página 287 - Perhaps the time is already come when it ought to be, and will be, something else; when the sluggard intellect of this continent will look from under its iron lids, and fill the postponed expectation of the world with something better than the exertions of mechanical skill.
Página 155 - If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the Government or against it, spread your table like base housekeepers, — under all these screens, I have difficulty to detect the precise man you are. And, of course, so much force is withdrawn from your proper life. But do your thing, and I shall know you. Do your work, and you shall reinforce yourself.
Página 152 - Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being. And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent- destiny ; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers, and benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort, and advancing...