Ralph Waldo Emerson: His Life, Writings, and PhilosophyJames R. Osgood, 1881 - 390 páginas |
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... manner , a genu- ine Puritan , dressing with rigid plainness , wearing his hair very short , and was devoutly faithful in the dis- charge of all the duties of his profession . He was an earnest and eloquent preacher . Cotton Mather said ...
... manner , a genu- ine Puritan , dressing with rigid plainness , wearing his hair very short , and was devoutly faithful in the dis- charge of all the duties of his profession . He was an earnest and eloquent preacher . Cotton Mather said ...
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... manners familiar and gentlemanly ; his conversation communicative and face- tious , though not inconsistent with his ministerial character ; in his preaching he was popular , eloquent , persuasive , and devotional , adapting himself ...
... manners familiar and gentlemanly ; his conversation communicative and face- tious , though not inconsistent with his ministerial character ; in his preaching he was popular , eloquent , persuasive , and devotional , adapting himself ...
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... manner in the pulpit was agreeable . " Dr. Lowell says he was " a handsome man , rather tall , with a fair complexion , his cheeks slightly tinted , his motions easy , graceful , and gentlemanlike , his manner bland and pleasant . He ...
... manner in the pulpit was agreeable . " Dr. Lowell says he was " a handsome man , rather tall , with a fair complexion , his cheeks slightly tinted , his motions easy , graceful , and gentlemanlike , his manner bland and pleasant . He ...
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... manners of pecu- liar softness and natural grace and quiet dignity . Her sensible and kindly speech was always as good as the best instruction ; her smile , though it was ever ready . was a reward . Her dark , liquid eyes , from which ...
... manners of pecu- liar softness and natural grace and quiet dignity . Her sensible and kindly speech was always as good as the best instruction ; her smile , though it was ever ready . was a reward . Her dark , liquid eyes , from which ...
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... manner , studious , little given to the ruder sports of his comrades . Yet he was of a genial disposition , fond of story - telling , and good at making a social meeting pass off pleasantly . His mind was unusually mature and ...
... manner , studious , little given to the ruder sports of his comrades . Yet he was of a genial disposition , fond of story - telling , and good at making a social meeting pass off pleasantly . His mind was unusually mature and ...
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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.