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Página 125
The idioms of his language , and the figures of his rhetoric , have usurped the
place of his truth ; and churches are not built on his principles , but on his tropes .
Christianity became a Mythus , as the poetic teaching of Greece and of Egypt ...
The idioms of his language , and the figures of his rhetoric , have usurped the
place of his truth ; and churches are not built on his principles , but on his tropes .
Christianity became a Mythus , as the poetic teaching of Greece and of Egypt ...
Página 131
The Church seems to totter to its fall , almost all life extinct . ... churches ; this
moaning of the heart because it is bereaved of the consolation , the hope , the
grandeur , that come alone out of the culture of the moral nature ; should be
heard ...
The Church seems to totter to its fall , almost all life extinct . ... churches ; this
moaning of the heart because it is bereaved of the consolation , the hope , the
grandeur , that come alone out of the culture of the moral nature ; should be
heard ...
Página 132
In how many churches , by how many prophets , tell me , is man made sensible
that he is an infinite Soul , that the earth and heavens are passing into his mind ;
that he is drinking forever the soul of God ? Where now sounds the persuasion ...
In how many churches , by how many prophets , tell me , is man made sensible
that he is an infinite Soul , that the earth and heavens are passing into his mind ;
that he is drinking forever the soul of God ? Where now sounds the persuasion ...
Página 133
I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to say , I would go to church no
more . thought I , where they are wont to go , else had no soul entered the temple
in the afternoon . A snow - storm was falling around us . The snowstorm was real
...
I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to say , I would go to church no
more . thought I , where they are wont to go , else had no soul entered the temple
in the afternoon . A snow - storm was falling around us . The snowstorm was real
...
Página 134
It seemed strange that the people should come to church . It seemed as if their
houses were very unentertaining , that they should prefer this thoughtless clamor
. It shows that there is a commanding attraction in the moral sentiment , that can ...
It seemed strange that the people should come to church . It seemed as if their
houses were very unentertaining , that they should prefer this thoughtless clamor
. It shows that there is a commanding attraction in the moral sentiment , that can ...
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Página 77 - Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us are rushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.
Página 110 - Is it not the chief disgrace in the world not to be an unit; — not to be reckoned one character; — not to yield that peculiar fruit which each man was created to bear, but to be reckoned in the gross, in the hundred, or...
Página 32 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I owe, When now I think you can behold such sights, And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, When mine are blanch'd with fear.
Página 106 - I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia ; what is Greek art, or Proven^al minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low.
Página 7 - Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.
Página 99 - ... to have recorded that, which men in crowded cities find true for them also. The orator distrusts at first the fitness of his frank confessions, — his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses, — until he finds that he is the complement -of his hearers ; that they drink his words because he fulfils for them their own nature ; the deeper he dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds, this is the most acceptable, most public, and universally true.
Página 8 - I am the lover of uncontained and immortal beauty. In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages. In the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.
Página 84 - Each age, it is found, must write its own books ; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.
Página 22 - I call an ultimate end. No reason can' be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.
Página 89 - Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world. We then see, what is always true, that, as the seer's hour of vision is short and rare among heavy days and months, so is its record, perchance, the least part of his volume.
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| Título | Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures, Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Autor | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Editora | Phillips, Sampson, 1856 |
| Original de | Harvard University |
| Digitalizado | 15 nov. 2007 |
| Num. págs. | 383 páginas |
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