| 1914 - 28 páginas
...spirit of our fathers who does not believe that America has a mission among the nations. Emerson said: "Our whole history appears like a last effort of Divine Providence in behalf of the human race." And the light which science, in recent years, has thrown on the significance of heredity not only confirms... | |
| Lucian Lamar Knight - 1917 - 584 páginas
...the ark of His covenant with the sons of men. Emerson wisely said, "Our whole history looks like the last effort of Divine Providence in behalf of the human race." And the republic will endure. Centralization will be checked, and liberty saved — plutocracy overthrown... | |
| 1892 - 376 páginas
...nation, through its masses recognized as the working people. Bmerson wrote, "America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of Divine Providence in behalt oí the human race." To teachers, the force of this thought lies in the fact, that here all... | |
| Samuel Zane Batten - 1922 - 288 páginas
...States," Vol. I, p. 214. 3 Cromwell, " Fourth Speech In Parliament." •"Miscellanies," p. 279. portunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of Divine Providence in behalf of the human race." If there is a God in history who calls nations and determines the course of events, then America is... | |
| Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1928 - 500 páginas
...whether he hails from Arizona or from Maine, from Texas or from Rhode Island. Truly does Emerson say, "We live in a new and exceptional age." America is another word for opportunity. Our entire history appears like a last effort of divine Providence in behalf of the human race. The civilization... | |
| 1862 - 884 páginas
...eaid Nie-' buhr, " 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,... | |
| Carl Britt Hyatt - 1956 - 248 páginas
...drop the word "American" from his personal description. HENRY CABOT LODGE. America is another name for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a...of Divine Providence in behalf of the human race. EMERSON. GRADUATION Some of us saw one graduation that we shall never forget. In many ways it was just... | |
| Ronald Cedric White, Charles Howard Hopkins - 1976 - 330 páginas
...which demand it. The wise words of Emerson, true when written, are peculiarly applicable today: "We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another...justice of the peace, is not for those who at this hour lead the destinies of this people." Conservatism demands precedents; progress creates them. The first... | |
| Louis P. Masur - 1995 - 316 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, as... | |
| William J. Federer - 2003 - 420 páginas
...some of the best poems in American literature. Ralph Waldo Emerson stated: "America is another name for opportunity. Our whole history appears like a...of divine Providence in behalf of the human race." American Minute May 26 n this day, May 26, I907, a movie legend was born named Marion Michael Morrison,... | |
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