An Address Delivered Before the Senior Class in Divinity College, Cambridge, Sunday Evening, 15 July, 1838James Munroe, 1838 - 31 páginas This book is the recording of a speech given by Ralph Waldo Emerson to students at Divinity College in 1838. |
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Página 29 - to them a man. Look to it first and only, that you are such ; that fashion, custom, authority, pleasure, and money are nothing to you, — are not bandages over your eyes, that you cannot see, — but live with the privilege of the immeasurable mind. Not too anxious to visit
Página 11 - into the deeps of Reason. When he says, " I ought; " when love warms him ; when he chooses, warned from on high, the good and great deed ; then, deep melodies wander through his soul from Supreme Wisdom. Then he can
Página 7 - be written out on paper, or spoken by the tongue. They elude, evade our persevering thought, and yet we read them hourly in each other's faces, in each other's actions, in our own remorse. The moral traits which are all globed into every virtuous act and
Página 25 - and gropes after it knows not what. And for want of this culture, the soul of the community is sick and faithless. It wants nothing so much as a stern, high, stoical, Christian discipline, to make it know itself and the divinity that
Página 14 - He felt respect for Moses and the prophets ; but no unfit tenderness at postponing their initial revelations, to the hour and the man that now is ; to the eternal revelation in the heart. Thus was he a true man. Having seen that the law in us is commanding, he would not suffer it to be commanded.
Página 9 - in each ray of the star, in each wavelet of the pool, active ; and whatever opposes that will, is everywhere baulked and baffled, because things are made so, and not otherwise. Good is positive. Evil is merely
Página 9 - These facts have always suggested to man the sublime creed, that the world is not the product of manifold power, but of one will, of one mind ; and that one mind is everywhere, in each ray of the star, in each wavelet of the pool, active ; and whatever opposes that will, is everywhere baulked and baffled, because things are
Página 29 - not bandages over your eyes, that you cannot see, — but live with the privilege of the immeasurable mind. Not too anxious to visit
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