| 1903 - 986 páginas
...wonderful thing. "America," said Emerson, and his words are as true to-day as when they were first spoken, "is another word for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race." I am to consider with you some of the new problems... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 488 páginas
...periods," said Niebuhr, " when something much better than happiness and security of life is attainable." We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another...Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race ; and a literal, slavish following of precedents,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 440 páginas
...periods," said Niebuhr, " when something much better than happiness and security of life is attainable." We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another...Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race ; and a literal, slavish following of precedents,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 438 páginas
...periods," said Niebuhr, " when something much better than happiness and security of life is attainable." We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another...Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race ; and a literal, slavish following of precedents,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 440 páginas
...periods," said Niebuhr, " when something much better than happiness and security of life is attainable." We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another...Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race ; and a literal, slavish following of precedents,... | |
| Erastus Wiman - 1892 - 88 páginas
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| 1894 - 302 páginas
...harbor bitter antagonisms on the ground of religion. " America is another name for opportunity. Her whole history appears like a last effort of divine providence in behalf of the human race." From within her boundaries emanated the grand idea of freedom, such as the world had never heard of... | |
| 1913 - 752 páginas
...Emerson's words: 'We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another name for opportunity. Our entire history appears like a last effort of Divine Providence in behalf of the human race.' Every boy and girl in the Republic should commit those three sentences to memory. "Looking up one side... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 264 páginas
...periods," said Niebuhr, " when something much better than happiness and security of life is attainable." We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another...Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race ; and a literal, slavish following of precedents,... | |
| Orison Swett Marden - 1897 - 582 páginas
...own personal efforts. Opportunities? They are everywhere. "America is another name for opportunities. Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine Providence in behalf of the human race." Never before were there such grand openings, such chances, such opportunities. Especially is this true... | |
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