Ralph Waldo Emerson: His Life, Writings, and PhilosophyJames R. Osgood, 1881 - 390 páginas |
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... conversation in heaven , and conscientious even to a degree of scrupulosity . " He was one of the best scholars among the early colonists , and is said by Mather to have had " a competently good stroke at Latin poetry . " 1 The Concord ...
... conversation in heaven , and conscientious even to a degree of scrupulosity . " He was one of the best scholars among the early colonists , and is said by Mather to have had " a competently good stroke at Latin poetry . " 1 The Concord ...
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... Conversation . But in the execution of ye ministerial office he shone with Peculiar Lustre ; a spirit of Devo- tion animated all his performances ; his Doctrine drop'd as ye Rain , and his lips distilled like the Dew ; his Preaching was ...
... Conversation . But in the execution of ye ministerial office he shone with Peculiar Lustre ; a spirit of Devo- tion animated all his performances ; his Doctrine drop'd as ye Rain , and his lips distilled like the Dew ; his Preaching was ...
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... conversation communicative and face- tious , though not inconsistent with his ministerial character ; in his preaching he was popular , eloquent , persuasive , and devotional , adapting himself with re- markable ease to all ...
... conversation communicative and face- tious , though not inconsistent with his ministerial character ; in his preaching he was popular , eloquent , persuasive , and devotional , adapting himself with re- markable ease to all ...
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... conversation with everybody , and talks on every subject ; is sharp as a razor in her satire , and sees you through and through in a moment . " " She has read , all her life , " this friend said , " in the most miscellaneous way ; and ...
... conversation with everybody , and talks on every subject ; is sharp as a razor in her satire , and sees you through and through in a moment . " " She has read , all her life , " this friend said , " in the most miscellaneous way ; and ...
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... conversation already displayed something of originality . " He owed much to his early developed , and assiduously followed , habit of wide and careful reading ; and he " spent much of his time in special courses of private work in the ...
... conversation already displayed something of originality . " He owed much to his early developed , and assiduously followed , habit of wide and careful reading ; and he " spent much of his time in special courses of private work in the ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: His Life, Writings, and Philosophy George Willis Cooke Visualização completa - 1900 |
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Página 247 - Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being: Why thou wert there, 0 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 355 - Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know What rainbows teach, and sunsets show? Verdict which accumulates From lengthening scroll of human fates, Voice of earth to earth returned, Prayers of saints that inly burned,— Saying, What is excellent, As God lives, is permanent; Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain; Heart's love will meet thee again.
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 366 - ... 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 377 - 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 323 - We distinguish the announcements of the soul, its manifestations of its own nature, by the term Revelation. These are always attended by the emotion of the sublime. For this communication is an influx of the Divine mind into our mind. It is an ebb of the individual rivulet before the flowing surges of the sea of life.
Página 310 - All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light; is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the vast background of our being, in which they lie, — an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed.
Página 374 - Christianity is rightly dear to the best of mankind; yet was there never a young philosopher whose breeding had fallen into the christian church by whom that brave text of Paul's was not specially prized, "Then shall also the Son be subject unto Him who put all things under him, that God may be all in all.
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.