Twelve EssaysG. Slater, 1849 - 261 páginas |
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... society or mode of action in history , to which there is not somewhat corre- sponding in his life . Every thing tends in a most wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and yield its whole virtue to him . He should see that he can live all ...
... society or mode of action in history , to which there is not somewhat corre- sponding in his life . Every thing tends in a most wonderful manner to abbreviate itself and yield its whole virtue to him . He should see that he can live all ...
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... , Arkwright , predict the fusible , hard , and temperable texture of metals , the properties of stone , water , and wood ? the lovely attributes of the maiden child predict the refinements and decorations of civil society 34 ESSAY I.
... , Arkwright , predict the fusible , hard , and temperable texture of metals , the properties of stone , water , and wood ? the lovely attributes of the maiden child predict the refinements and decorations of civil society 34 ESSAY I.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. maiden child predict the refinements and decorations of civil society ? Here also we are reminded of the action of man on man . A mind might ponder its thought for ages , and not gain so much self - knowledge as the ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. maiden child predict the refinements and decorations of civil society ? Here also we are reminded of the action of man on man . A mind might ponder its thought for ages , and not gain so much self - knowledge as the ...
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... society of your contemporaries , the connection of events . Great men have always done so , and confided themselves child - like to the genius of their age , betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart ...
... society of your contemporaries , the connection of events . Great men have always done so , and confided themselves child - like to the genius of their age , betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart ...
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... society ; inde- pendent , irresponsible , looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by , he tries and sen- tences them on their merits , in the swift summary way of boys , as good , bad , interesting , silly ...
... society ; inde- pendent , irresponsible , looking out from his corner on such people and facts as pass by , he tries and sen- tences them on their merits , in the swift summary way of boys , as good , bad , interesting , silly ...
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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.