Emerson at Home and AbroadJ. R. Osgood, 1882 - 383 páginas |
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... spoke thirty - nine years ago con- cerning the conserving and the reforming spirit : - " Nature does not give the crown of its approbation , beauty , to any action , or emblem , or actor , but one which combines both these elements ...
... spoke thirty - nine years ago con- cerning the conserving and the reforming spirit : - " Nature does not give the crown of its approbation , beauty , to any action , or emblem , or actor , but one which combines both these elements ...
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... spoke of that quality of individualising in prayer . A man had died in his parish who did not bear a very good name , but was a very strong man ; and on two occasions he had been of service at fires , and saved life or furniture . At ...
... spoke of that quality of individualising in prayer . A man had died in his parish who did not bear a very good name , but was a very strong man ; and on two occasions he had been of service at fires , and saved life or furniture . At ...
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... spoke of as a ghoul , and dreaded as the hermits did any sign of a demon invading their solitude . It may also have been in part the love , wis- dom , and character represented in his three Fates Ruth , Sarah , Mary — which made him ...
... spoke of as a ghoul , and dreaded as the hermits did any sign of a demon invading their solitude . It may also have been in part the love , wis- dom , and character represented in his three Fates Ruth , Sarah , Mary — which made him ...
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... spoke of Wordsworth as " the great modern poet , " and once told me that he still found himself un- able to compare any early intellectual experience with . the effect produced on his mind by the poet's descrip- tion of the influence of ...
... spoke of Wordsworth as " the great modern poet , " and once told me that he still found himself un- able to compare any early intellectual experience with . the effect produced on his mind by the poet's descrip- tion of the influence of ...
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... lecture upon George Washington , I remember his taking up a glass of water , holding it for a moment , and dexterously spilling some of it as he spoke of Washington's purity and cleanliness of soul . There 54 EMERSON AT HOME AND ABROAD .
... lecture upon George Washington , I remember his taking up a glass of water , holding it for a moment , and dexterously spilling some of it as he spoke of Washington's purity and cleanliness of soul . There 54 EMERSON AT HOME AND ABROAD .
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Página 163 - OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?
Página 259 - I know not whether these ancestors of mine bethought themselves to repent and ask pardon of Heaven for their cruelties, or whether they are now groaning under the heavy consequences of them, in another state of being. At all events, I the present writer, as their representative, hereby take shame upon myself for their sakes, and pray that any curse incurred by them — as I have heard, and as the dreary and unprosperous condition of the race for many a long year back would argue to exist — may...
Página 163 - Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us by the powers they supply, to action proportioned to nature, why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?
Página 152 - ... behind nature, throughout nature, spirit is present; one and not compound it does not act upon us from without, that is, in space and time, but spiritually, or through ourselves: therefore, that spirit, that is, the Supreme Being, does not build up nature around us but puts it forth through us, as the life of the tree puts forth new branches and leaves through the pores of the old.
Página 151 - A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings, The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.
Página 169 - I look for the hour when that supreme Beauty which ravished the souls of those eastern men, and chiefly of those Hebrews, and through their lips spoke oracles to all time, shall speak in the West also. The Hebrew and Greek Scriptures contain immortal sentences, that have been bread of life to millions.
Página 151 - All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature. Therefore is nature glorious with form, color, and motion; that every globe in the remotest heaven, every chemical change from the rudest crystal up to the laws of life, every change of vegetation from the first principle of growth in the eye of a leaf, to the tropical forest and antediluvian coal-mine, every animal function from the sponge up to Hercules, shall hint or thunder to man the laws of...
Página 373 - A few strong instincts and a few plain rules Among the herdsmen of the Alps, have wrought More for mankind at this unhappy day Than all the pride of intellect and thought...
Página 164 - In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended. Free should the scholar be, — free and brave. Free even to the definition of freedom, " without any hindrance that does not arise out of his own constitution.
Página 166 - Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain winds, shined upon by all the stars of God, find the earth below not in unison with these, but are hindered from action by the disgust which the principles on which business is managed inspire, and turn drudges, or die of disgust, some of them 179