Twelve EssaysG. Slater, 1849 - 261 páginas |
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... drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours ...
... drawn from the great repositories of nature , as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours ...
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... draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree ; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely ; but , by watching for a time his motions and plays , the painter enters into his nature , and can then draw him at will in ...
... draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree ; or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely ; but , by watching for a time his motions and plays , the painter enters into his nature , and can then draw him at will in ...
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... draws us because we are Greeks . It is a state through which every man in some sort passes . The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature , the perfection of the senses , —of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the ...
... draws us because we are Greeks . It is a state through which every man in some sort passes . The Grecian state is the era of the bodily nature , the perfection of the senses , —of the spiritual nature unfolded in strict unity with the ...
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... draw to - day the face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the general statement to explore the reason of this correspondency . Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts ...
... draw to - day the face of a person whom he shall see to - morrow for the first time . I will not now go behind the general statement to explore the reason of this correspondency . Let it suffice that in the light of these two facts ...
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... drawn out , and we are become timorous desponding whimperers . We are afraid of truth , afraid of fortune , afraid of death , and afraid of each other . Our age yields no great and perfect persons . We want men and women who shall ...
... drawn out , and we are become timorous desponding whimperers . We are afraid of truth , afraid of fortune , afraid of death , and afraid of each other . Our age yields no great and perfect persons . We want men and women who shall ...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.]. Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson Visualização completa - 1849 |
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action affection appear beautiful soul beauty becomes behold better black event Bonduca Cæsar character circle conversation divine doctrine Egypt Epaminondas eternal experience fact fear feel FREDERIKA BREMER friendship genius gifts give Greek hand heart heaven Heraclitus heroism highest hour human instinct intellect labour less light live look lose man's marriage mind moral nature never noble object painted pass perception perfect persons Petrarch Phidias Phocion Pindar Plato Plotinus Plutarch poet poetry proverb prudence Pyrrhonism racter relations religion Rome sculpture secret seek seems seen sense sentiment society Socrates Sophocles soul speak spect Spinoza spirit stand stoicism sweet talent teach thee things thou thought tion to-day to-morrow true truth universal Vathek virtue whilst whole wisdom wise words Xenophon youth
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Página 43 - No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution ; the only wrong, what is against it.
Página 48 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.
Página 40 - A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine Providence has found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connexion of events.
Página 51 - Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his genius that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of man. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony; the Reformation of Luther; Quakerism of Fox; Methodism of Wesley; Abolition of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome"; and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest...
Página 45 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Página 63 - Our sympathy is just as base. We come to them who weep foolishly and sit down and cry for company instead of imparting to them truth and health in rough electric shocks, putting them once more in communication with their own reason.
Página 38 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment.
Página 138 - Her pure and eloquent blood Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought That one might almost say her body thought.
Página 92 - Men suffer all their life long under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time.
Página 69 - Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky. The solstice he does not observe; the equinox he knows as little; and the whole bright calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind.