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... actions for nothings and absurdities , cheated by spectral jokes and waking suddenly with ghastly laughter , to be rebuked by the cold , lonely , silent midnight , and to rake with confusion in memory among the gibbering nonsense to ...
... actions for nothings and absurdities , cheated by spectral jokes and waking suddenly with ghastly laughter , to be rebuked by the cold , lonely , silent midnight , and to rake with confusion in memory among the gibbering nonsense to ...
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... deserves the more attention from its singu- lar resemblance to that obscure yet startling expe- rience which almost every person confesses in day . light , that particular passages of conversation and action have DEMONOLOGY . 11.
... deserves the more attention from its singu- lar resemblance to that obscure yet startling expe- rience which almost every person confesses in day . light , that particular passages of conversation and action have DEMONOLOGY . 11.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. light , that particular passages of conversation and action have occurred to him in the same order be- fore , whether dreaming or waking ; a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. light , that particular passages of conversation and action have occurred to him in the same order be- fore , whether dreaming or waking ; a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely ...
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... actions which seem prepos- terous , out of all fitness . He is hostile , he is cruel , he is frightful , he is a poltroon . It turns out prophecy a year later . But it was already in my mind as character , and the sibyl dreams merely ...
... actions which seem prepos- terous , out of all fitness . He is hostile , he is cruel , he is frightful , he is a poltroon . It turns out prophecy a year later . But it was already in my mind as character , and the sibyl dreams merely ...
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... action and the agents . We are used to vaster wonders than these that are alleged . In the hands of poets , of devout and sim- ple minds , nothing in the line of their character and genius would surprise us . But we should look for the ...
... action and the agents . We are used to vaster wonders than these that are alleged . In the hands of poets , of devout and sim- ple minds , nothing in the line of their character and genius would surprise us . But we should look for the ...
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Page 96 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never...
Page 98 - Though Love repine, and Reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, " 'T is man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.
Page 230 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can...
Page 142 - ... lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained, and he only holds the key to his own secret. By your tampering and thwarting and too much governing he may be hindered from his end and kept out of his own. Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
Page 449 - The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them." "The locust z-ing." "Devil's-needles zigzagging along the Nut-Meadow brook." "Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.
Page 444 - I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before ; I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore.
Page 151 - A rule is so easy that it does not need a man to apply it ; an automaton, a machine, can be made to keep a school so. It facilitates labor and thought so much that there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the wants of each single mind, and to govern by steam. But it is at frightful cost. Our modes of Education aim to expedite, to save labor ; to do for masses what cannot be done for masses, what must be done reverently, one by one : say rather, the whole...
Page 373 - England, and marks the precise time when the power of the old creed yielded to the influence of modern science and humanity. I have found that I could only bring you this portrait by selections from the diary of my heroine, premising a sketch of her time and place.
Page 336 - I have never got over my surprise that I should have been born into the most estimable place in all the world, and in the very nick of time too.
Page 352 - If the assembly was disorderly, it was picturesque. Madmen, madwomen, men with beards, Dunkers, Muggletonians, Come-outers, Groaners, Agrarians, Seventh-day Baptists, Quakers, Abolitionists, Calvinists, Unitarians, and Philosophers, — all came successively to the top and seized their moment, if not their hour, wherein to chide, or pray, or preach, or protest.