| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 228 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 F. Jr Cox - 2004 - 558 páginas
...America, the holy city." Then another century later, the American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson saw America as "a last effort of Divine Providence in behalf of the human race" (Bercovitch, 1978, p, 200). "Let us realize," Emerson said, "that this country, the last found, is... | |
| Orison Swett Marden - 2005 - 461 páginas
...achieving grand results. 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... | |
| Robert Vare - 2008 - 689 páginas
...stand and to withstandI Is not ciyilixation heroic alsoI Is it not for actionI lus it not a willI , , . America is another word for Opportunity. Our whole history appears like a last effort of the Uiyine proyidence in hehalf of the human race; and a literal slayish following of precedents, as... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2007 - 554 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... | |
| 1862 - 830 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... | |
| 1918 - 366 páginas
...FEDERATION 134 MASS CONVENTION AT CINCINNATI 186 i I. J/? m erica IS ANOTHER, NAME FOR OPPORTUNITY O UKwhole history appears like a last effort of divine Providence in behalf of the human race. Emerson Lourlen of The Inland Printer 38TH YEAR (REGISTERED US PATENT OFFICE) GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.,... | |
| 1913 - 1046 páginas
...satisfaction. From the smallest beginning we have risen to a commanding position. 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. Those words... | |
| Illinois State Bee-keepers' Association - 1919 - 228 páginas
...future than the bee-keepers now; when the words of Emerson are probably truer than ever before, that "We live in a new and exceptional age. America is another word for opportunity." And that since the war has a peculiar significance for bee-keepers. In all beedom the outlook is larger,... | |
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