The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: MiscellaniesHoughton Mifflin, 1904 |
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... exist . And whilst the recollection of its claims oppresses me with a sense of my unworthiness , I am consoled by the hope that no time and no change can deprive me of the satisfaction of pursuing and exercising its high- est functions ...
... exist . And whilst the recollection of its claims oppresses me with a sense of my unworthiness , I am consoled by the hope that no time and no change can deprive me of the satisfaction of pursuing and exercising its high- est functions ...
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... exists in a great part of the Northern people a gloomy diffidence in the moral charac- ter of the government . On the broaching of this question , a general expression of despondency , of disbelief that any good will accrue from a ...
... exists in a great part of the Northern people a gloomy diffidence in the moral charac- ter of the government . On the broaching of this question , a general expression of despondency , of disbelief that any good will accrue from a ...
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... exists . It may be asserted , without fear of denial , that the former slaves of Jamaica are now as secure in all social rights , as freeborn Britons . " He further describes the erection of numerous churches , chapels and schools which ...
... exists . It may be asserted , without fear of denial , that the former slaves of Jamaica are now as secure in all social rights , as freeborn Britons . " He further describes the erection of numerous churches , chapels and schools which ...
Page 128
... exists ; the planters are not , excepting in rare examples , members of the legis- lature . The extent of the empire , and the mag- nitude and number of other questions crowding into court , keep this one in balance , and prevent it ...
... exists ; the planters are not , excepting in rare examples , members of the legis- lature . The extent of the empire , and the mag- nitude and number of other questions crowding into court , keep this one in balance , and prevent it ...
Page 134
... their pri- mary capacity take up their cause on this very ground , and say to the government of the State , and of the Union , that government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party 134 WEST INDIA EMANCIPATION.
... their pri- mary capacity take up their cause on this very ground , and say to the government of the State , and of the Union , that government exists to defend the weak and the poor and the injured party 134 WEST INDIA EMANCIPATION.
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Page 611 - Yes: he had lived to shame me from my sneer, To lame my pencil, and confute my pen; To make me own this hind of princes peer, This rail-splitter a true-born king of men.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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!
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 590 - 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?
Page 600 - I endeavored to act up to that instruction. I say I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons.