Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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Page 77
... evil begins to be repaired . Our sympathy is just as base . We come to them who weep foolishly and sit down and cry for company , instead of imparting to them truth and health in rough electric shocks , putting them once more in ...
... evil begins to be repaired . Our sympathy is just as base . We come to them who weep foolishly and sit down and cry for company , instead of imparting to them truth and health in rough electric shocks , putting them once more in ...
Page 95
... condition of man . Every excess causes a defect ; every defect an excess . Every sweet hath its sour ; every pleasure has an equal penalty put on its abuse . evil its good . Every faculty which is a receiver of COMPENSATION . 95.
... condition of man . Every excess causes a defect ; every defect an excess . Every sweet hath its sour ; every pleasure has an equal penalty put on its abuse . evil its good . Every faculty which is a receiver of COMPENSATION . 95.
Page 97
... evil appear , the checks exist , and will appear . If the government is cruel , the governor's life is not safe . If you tax too high , the revenue will yield nothing . If you make the criminal code sanguinary , juries will not convict ...
... evil appear , the checks exist , and will appear . If the government is cruel , the governor's life is not safe . If you tax too high , the revenue will yield nothing . If you make the criminal code sanguinary , juries will not convict ...
Page 99
... evil ; if the affinity , so the repulsion ; if the force , so the limitation . Thus is the universe alive . All things are moral . That soul which within us is a sentiment , outside of us is a law . We feel its inspiration ; out there ...
... evil ; if the affinity , so the repulsion ; if the force , so the limitation . Thus is the universe alive . All things are moral . That soul which within us is a sentiment , outside of us is a law . We feel its inspiration ; out there ...
Page 114
... evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor . As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself , so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist . The same guards which ...
... evil to which we do not succumb is a benefactor . As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself , so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist . The same guards which ...
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| Title | Essays, First Series Volume 2 of Works, Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | John B. Alden, 1886 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 15 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 343 pages |
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