The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: MiscellaniesHoughton Mifflin, 1906 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
American better Boston brave British Bulkeley Captain Christ Christian church citizens civilization Colonel colony Concord Court crime duty emancipation Emerson enemy England English eyes F. B. Sanborn father feeling fire freedom friends FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW genius give Governor heart honor human Indian interest Jesus John Brown justice Kansas labor land lecture liberty living look Lord Lord Mansfield Lord's Supper mankind Massachusetts meet ment mind moral nation nature negro never occasion opinion Parker party peace persons planters political poor Praying Indians President principle question race RALPH WALDO EMERSON regiment religion religious Sachem sentiment Shakspeare Simon Willard slavery slaves society soul speak speech spirit suffered Theodore Parker things thought tion Town Records trade Union virtue vote Webster Whig whilst whole William Emerson women words
Passagens conhecidas
Página 314 - Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him.
Página 1 - I LIKE a church; I like a cowl; I love a prophet of the soul; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains, or pensive smiles; Yet not for all his faith can see Would I that cowled churchman be. Why should the vest on him allure, Which I could not on me endure? Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought; Never from lips of cunning fell The thrilling Delphic oracle; Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible...
Página 571 - Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?
Página 215 - Of all we loved and honored, naught Save power remains, — A fallen angel's pride of thought, Still strong in chains. All else is gone : from those great eyes The soul has fled : When faith is lost, when honor dies, The man is dead!
Página 328 - Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote: For him her Old-World moulds aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true.
Página 396 - Boston Hymn READ IN MUSIC HALL, JANUARY I, 1863 The word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims came, As they sat by the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor.
Página 2 - The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables yet unbroken ; The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak, or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind. One accent of the Holy Ghost The heedless world hath never lost.
Página 216 - Shakespeare was of us, Milton was for us. Burns, Shelley, were with us— they watch from their graves! He alone breaks from the van and the freemen. He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves! We shall march prospering, — not thro...
Página 572 - I endeavored to act up to that instruction. I say I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons.
Página 340 - Many loved Truth, and lavished life's best oil Amid the dust of books to find her, Content at last, for guerdon of their toil, With the cast mantle she hath left behind her.