The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In Two Volumes, Volume 1Fields, Osgood & Company, 1870 |
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... wish to fling stones at my beautiful mother , nor soil my gentle nest . I only wish to in- dicate the true position of nature in regard to man , wherein to establish man , all right education tends ; as the ground which to attain is the ...
... wish to fling stones at my beautiful mother , nor soil my gentle nest . I only wish to in- dicate the true position of nature in regard to man , wherein to establish man , all right education tends ; as the ground which to attain is the ...
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... wish you may feel your call in throbs of desire and hope . The office is the first in the world . It is of that reality that it cannot suffer the deduction of any falsehood . And it is my duty to say to you , that the need was never ...
... wish you may feel your call in throbs of desire and hope . The office is the first in the world . It is of that reality that it cannot suffer the deduction of any falsehood . And it is my duty to say to you , that the need was never ...
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... wishes of those who love us , shall impair our freedom , but we shall resist for truth's sake the freest flow of kindness , and appeal to sympathies far in advance ; and what is the highest form in which we know this beautiful element a ...
... wishes of those who love us , shall impair our freedom , but we shall resist for truth's sake the freest flow of kindness , and appeal to sympathies far in advance ; and what is the highest form in which we know this beautiful element a ...
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... wish the scholar to replace to them those private , sincere , divine ex- periences , of which they have been defrauded by dwelling in the street . It is the noble , manlike , just thought , which is the superiority demanded of you , and ...
... wish the scholar to replace to them those private , sincere , divine ex- periences , of which they have been defrauded by dwelling in the street . It is the noble , manlike , just thought , which is the superiority demanded of you , and ...
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... wish to look with sour aspect at the industri- ous manufacturing village , or the mart of commerce . I love the music of the water - wheel ; I value the railway ; I feel the pride which the sight of a ship inspires ; I look on trade and ...
... wish to look with sour aspect at the industri- ous manufacturing village , or the mart of commerce . I love the music of the water - wheel ; I value the railway ; I feel the pride which the sight of a ship inspires ; I look on trade and ...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In 2 Volumes. [Inhalt. Vol ..., Volume 1 Ralph Waldo Emerson Visualização integral - 1870 |
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Página 45 - into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests. Events, actions arise, that must be sung,, that will sing themselves. Who can doubt, that poetry will revive and lead in a new age, as the star in the constellation Harp, which now flames in our zenith, astronomers announce,
Página 61 - They did not yet see, and thousands of young men as hopeful now crowding to the barriers for the career, do not yet see, that if the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. Patience,— patience
Página 397 - truth, and forego all things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented. God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please, — you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates. He in whom the love of repose
Página 241 - thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought,
Página 241 - conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil
Página 40 - kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into the creation. It will not need, when the mind is prepared for study, to search for objects. The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. What is a day *? What is a year
Página 354 - And yet the love that will be annihilated sooner than treacherous has already made death impossible, and affirms itself no mortal, but a native of the deeps of absolute and inextinguishable being. THE OVER-SOUL. " But souls that of his own good life partake, He loves as his own self; dear as his
Página 27 - woman, house and trade. In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul
Página 243 - everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one' of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
Página 30 - And^ as the morning steals upon the night, The charm dissolves apace, Melting the darkness, so their rising senses Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle Their clearer reason. Begins to swell : and the approaching tide