 | Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn, Dorothy Canfield Fisher - 1916 - 168 páginas
...Aspiration Prayer that craves a particular commodity, — anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from...is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. — Emerson. Hath man no second life ? Pitch this one high! — Sits there no judge in Heaven our sin... | |
 | Fred Wellington Ruckstuhl - 1916 - 618 páginas
...74 THE ARTIST: PILOT OR PARASITE? EMERSON, the incarnation of common-sense and *— idealism, said: "Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life...point of view ; it is the soliloquy of a beholding and a jubilant soul." From that point of view there are only two human energies worthy of the reverence... | |
 | Roy Holland Seward - 1917 - 40 páginas
...physical organism as a substanceless shadow possessing neither reality nor power. Emerson says that prayer is the "contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view." From this it follows, logically and scientifically, that the spiritual fact must be the highest point... | |
 | Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 páginas
...Prayer that craves a particular commodity — anything less than all good — is vicious. Prayer is that contemplation of the facts of life from the highest...beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God prbnouncing His works good s» s» But prayer as a means to affect a private end is theft and meanness.... | |
 | William Paterson Paterson, David Russell - 1920 - 596 páginas
...clear enough: " Prayer that craves a particular commodity, or anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from...It is the Spirit of God pronouncing His works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft. It supposes dualism and not unity... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 páginas
...miraculous. Prayer that craves a particular commodity— any thing less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from...It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer #sa means to effect a private end, is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 432 páginas
...miraculous. Prayer that craves a particular commodity — anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from...It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 444 páginas
...and miraculous. Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from...It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 páginas
...throughout his being, no longer to the service of an individual but to the common soul of all men. — .Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life...It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end, is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity... | |
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Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. 
