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Visible distance behind and before us , is respectively our image of memory and
hope . Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour , and is not reminded of the
flux of all things ? Throw a stone into the stream , and the circles 24 LANGUAGE .
Visible distance behind and before us , is respectively our image of memory and
hope . Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour , and is not reminded of the
flux of all things ? Throw a stone into the stream , and the circles 24 LANGUAGE .
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will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing
undiscovered regions of thought , and so communicating , through hope , new
activity to the torpid spirit . I shall therefore conclude this essay with some ...
will feel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing
undiscovered regions of thought , and so communicating , through hope , new
activity to the torpid spirit . I shall therefore conclude this essay with some ...
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THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR . MR . PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN , I GREET
you on the recommencement of our literary year . Our anniversary is one of hope
, and , perhaps , not enough of labor . We do not meet for games of strength or
skill ...
THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR . MR . PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN , I GREET
you on the recommencement of our literary year . Our anniversary is one of hope
, and , perhaps , not enough of labor . We do not meet for games of strength or
skill ...
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In this hope , I accept the topic which not only usage , but the nature of our
association , seem to prescribe to this day , — the AMERICAN SCHOLAR . Year
by year , we come up hither to read one more chapter of his biography . Let us
inquire ...
In this hope , I accept the topic which not only usage , but the nature of our
association , seem to prescribe to this day , — the AMERICAN SCHOLAR . Year
by year , we come up hither to read one more chapter of his biography . Let us
inquire ...
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But I have already shown the ground of my hope , in adverting to the doctrine that
man is one . I believe man has been wronged ; he has wronged himself . He has
almost lost the light , that can lead him back to his prerogatives . Men are ...
But I have already shown the ground of my hope , in adverting to the doctrine that
man is one . I believe man has been wronged ; he has wronged himself . He has
almost lost the light , that can lead him back to his prerogatives . Men are ...
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Página 77 - Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.
Página 110 - Is it not the chief disgrace in the world not to be an unit; — not to be reckoned one character; — not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or...
Página 32 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I owe, When now I think you can behold such sights, And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, When mine are blanch'd with fear.
Página 106 - I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what is Greek art, or Proven^al minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low.
Página 7 - Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.
Página 99 - ... to have recorded that, which men in crowded cities find true for them also. The orator distrusts at first the fitness of his frank confessions, — his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses, — until he finds that he is the complement -of his hearers ; that they drink his words because he fulfils for them their own nature ; the deeper he dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds, this is the most acceptable, most public, and universally true.
Página 8 - I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
Página 84 - Each age, it is found, must write its own books ; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.
Página 22 - I call an ultimate end. No reason can' be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.
Página 89 - Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world. We then see, what is always true, that, as the seer's hour of vision is short and rare among heavy days and months, so is its record, perchance, the least part of his volume.
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| Título | Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures, Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Autor | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Editora | Phillips, Sampson, 1856 |
| Original de | Harvard University |
| Digitalizado | 15 nov. 2007 |
| Num. págs. | 383 páginas |
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