The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: MiscellaniesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1904 |
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... means . So that the import of the expression is that he had received the story of an eye - witness such as we also possess . But there is a material circumstance which diminishes our confidence in the correctness of the Apostle's view ...
... means . So that the import of the expression is that he had received the story of an eye - witness such as we also possess . But there is a material circumstance which diminishes our confidence in the correctness of the Apostle's view ...
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... mean the unfavorable relation in which it places that numerous class of persons who abstain from it merely from disinclination to the rite . Influenced by these considerations , I have proposed to the brethren of the Church to drop the ...
... mean the unfavorable relation in which it places that numerous class of persons who abstain from it merely from disinclination to the rite . Influenced by these considerations , I have proposed to the brethren of the Church to drop the ...
Page 91
... means represent the will of the nation ; and that , out of eighteen thousand souls composing the nation , fifteen thousand six hundred and sixty - eight have protested against the so - called treaty . It now appears that the government ...
... means represent the will of the nation ; and that , out of eighteen thousand souls composing the nation , fifteen thousand six hundred and sixty - eight have protested against the so - called treaty . It now appears that the government ...
Page 129
... slave's cause : - - they turned their backs on me . No : I see other pictures , of mean men ; I see very poor , very ill - clothed , - very ignorant men , not surrounded by happy friends XI WEST INDIA EMANCIPATION 129.
... slave's cause : - - they turned their backs on me . No : I see other pictures , of mean men ; I see very poor , very ill - clothed , - very ignorant men , not surrounded by happy friends XI WEST INDIA EMANCIPATION 129.
Page 135
... means of plain men , working not under a leader , but under a sentiment . Other revolutions have been the in- surrection of the oppressed ; this was the repent- ance of the tyrant . It was the masters revolting from their mastery . The ...
... means of plain men , working not under a leader , but under a sentiment . Other revolutions have been the in- surrection of the oppressed ; this was the repent- ance of the tyrant . It was the masters revolting from their mastery . The ...
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Page 613 - 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.