Ralph Waldo Emerson: His Life, Writings, and PhilosophyJ.R. Osgood, 1881 - 390 páginas |
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... REFORMS IX . LECTURES AND ESSAYS X. THE ANTI - SLAVERY MOVEMENT . XI . IN WAR - TIME XII . THE PROPHET RECEIVED XIII . THE VOICE AT EVE · XIV . THE MAN AND THE LIFE 16 26 35 52 66 77 91 107 · 132 144 • • 159 · 175 190 XV . XVI . XVII ...
... REFORMS IX . LECTURES AND ESSAYS X. THE ANTI - SLAVERY MOVEMENT . XI . IN WAR - TIME XII . THE PROPHET RECEIVED XIII . THE VOICE AT EVE · XIV . THE MAN AND THE LIFE 16 26 35 52 66 77 91 107 · 132 144 • • 159 · 175 190 XV . XVI . XVII ...
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... reform . On the 19th of April , 1825 , the corner - stone of a monument was laid in Concord , to commemorate the Concord fight . Edward Everett gave the oration . Emerson offered this toast : " The little bush that marks the spot where ...
... reform . On the 19th of April , 1825 , the corner - stone of a monument was laid in Concord , to commemorate the Concord fight . Edward Everett gave the oration . Emerson offered this toast : " The little bush that marks the spot where ...
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... reform . One of these was Horace Mann . In a letter dated Boston , Dec. 9 , 1836 , he says , * 1 Lecture delivered in his church Jan. 8 , 1865 , on The Religious Philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson . 2 Memoirs of J. Q. Adams , vol . i . p ...
... reform . One of these was Horace Mann . In a letter dated Boston , Dec. 9 , 1836 , he says , * 1 Lecture delivered in his church Jan. 8 , 1865 , on The Religious Philosophy of Ralph Waldo Emerson . 2 Memoirs of J. Q. Adams , vol . i . p ...
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... reform of so many inveterate abuses with which society rings ; if the desire of a larger class of young men for a faith and hope , intellectual and religious , such as they have not yet found , be an omen to be trusted ; if the ...
... reform of so many inveterate abuses with which society rings ; if the desire of a larger class of young men for a faith and hope , intellectual and religious , such as they have not yet found , be an omen to be trusted ; if the ...
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... reform the world . " Ware sent a copy of his sermon to Emerson , accom- panied with this letter : - " CAMBRIDGE , Oct. 3 , 1838 . " MY DEAR SIR , - By this mail you will probably receive a copy of a sermon which I have just printed ...
... reform the world . " Ware sent a copy of his sermon to Emerson , accom- panied with this letter : - " CAMBRIDGE , Oct. 3 , 1838 . " MY DEAR SIR , - By this mail you will probably receive a copy of a sermon which I have just printed ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: His Life, Writings, and Philosophy George Willis Cooke Visualização completa - 1900 |
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Página 247 - Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing. Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!
Página 233 - I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of Leaves of Grass. I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed.
Página 28 - For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self...
Página 25 - O, when I am safe in my sylvan home, I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome; And when I am stretched beneath the pines, Where the evening star so holy shines, I laugh at the lore and the pride of man, At the sophist schools and the learned clan ; For what are they all, in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
Página 368 - ... centre of the present thought; and new date and new create the whole. Whenever a mind is simple and receives a divine wisdom, old things pass away, -means, teachers, texts, temples fall; it lives now. and absorbs past and future into the present hour.
Página 379 - As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action. The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar. are true prayers heard throughout nature, though for cheap ends. Caratach, in Fletcher's Bonduca. when admonished to inquire the mind of the god Audate, replies. "His hidden meaning lies in our endeavors; Our valors are our best gods.
Página 381 - There will be a new church founded on moral science; at first cold and naked, a babe in a manger again, the algebra and mathematics of ethical law, the church of men to come, without shawms, or psaltery, or sackbut; but it will have heaven and earth for its beams and rafters; science for symbol and illustration ; it will fast enough gather beauty, music, picture, poetry.
Página 40 - 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 325 - Everywhere the history of religion betrays a tendency to enthusiasm, The rapture of the Moravian and Quietist ; the opening of the internal sense of the Word, in the language of the New Jerusalem Church ; the revival of the Calvinistic Churches ; the experiences of the Methodists, — are varying forms of that shudder of awe and delight with which the individual soul always mingles with the universal soul.
Página 286 - There is a deeper fact in the soul than compensation, to wit, its own nature. The soul is not a compensation, but a life. The soul is. Under all this running sea of circumstance, whose waters ebb and flow with perfect balance, lies the aboriginal abyss of real Being. Essence, or God, is not a relation or a part, but the whole. Being is the vast affirmative, excluding negation, self-balanced, and swallowing up all relations, parts and times within itself.