The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: MiscellaniesHoughton Mifflin, 1904 |
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... facts only to show that , so far from the Supper being a tradition in which men are fully agreed , there has always been the widest room for difference of opinion upon this particular . Having recently given particular attention to this ...
... facts only to show that , so far from the Supper being a tradition in which men are fully agreed , there has always been the widest room for difference of opinion upon this particular . Having recently given particular attention to this ...
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... facts . Two of the Evangel- ists , namely , Matthew and John , were of the twelve disciples , and were present on that occa- sion . Neither of them drops the slightest inti- mation of any intention on the part of Jesus to set up ...
... facts . Two of the Evangel- ists , namely , Matthew and John , were of the twelve disciples , and were present on that occa- sion . Neither of them drops the slightest inti- mation of any intention on the part of Jesus to set up ...
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... facts . This mate- rial fact , that the occasion was to be remembered , is found in Luke alone , who was not present . There is no reason , however , that we know , for rejecting the account of Luke . I doubt not , the expression was ...
... facts . This mate- rial fact , that the occasion was to be remembered , is found in Luke alone , who was not present . There is no reason , however , that we know , for rejecting the account of Luke . I doubt not , the expression was ...
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... fact as very natural in the circumstances of the Church . The disciples lived together ; they threw all their property into a common stock ; they were bound together by the memory of Christ , and nothing could be more natural than that ...
... fact as very natural in the circumstances of the Church . The disciples lived together ; they threw all their property into a common stock ; they were bound together by the memory of Christ , and nothing could be more natural than that ...
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... fact , the observance of such a memorial feast by the early disciples , decisive of the question whether it ought to be observed by us . There was good reason for his personal friends to remember their friend and repeat his words . It ...
... fact , the observance of such a memorial feast by the early disciples , decisive of the question whether it ought to be observed by us . There was good reason for his personal friends to remember their friend and repeat his words . It ...
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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.