 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...  Complete Works - Page 373by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 400 pages
...and mark its power : and will take a deep interest for persons of celebrity. " MARY MOODY EMERSON.i I WISH to meet the invitation with which the ladies...portrait by selections from the diary of my heroine, premising a sketch of her time and place. I report some of the thoughts and soliloquies of a country... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 404 pages
...types survive. Perhaps I deceive myself and overestimate its interest. It has to me a value like tliat which many readers find in Madame Guyon, in Rahel,...portrait by selections from the diary of my heroine, premising a sketch of her time and place. I report some of the thoughts and soliloquies of a country... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 636 pages
...overestimate its interest. It has to me a value like that which many readers find in Madame Guyon,in Rahel,in Eugenie de Guerin, but it is purely original and hardly...portrait by selections from the diary of my heroine, premising a sketch of her time and place. I report some of the thoughts and soliloquies of a country... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 682 pages
...overestimate its interest. It has to me a value like that which many readers find in Madame Guyon,in Rahel,in Eugenie de Guerin, but it is purely original and hardly...portrait by selections from the diary of my heroine, premising a sketch of her time and place. I report some of the thoughts and soliloquies of a country... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 646 pages
...overestimate its interest. It has to me a value like that which many readers find in Madame Guyon,in Rahel,in Eugenie de Guerin, but it is purely original and hardly...portrait by selections from the diary of my heroine, premising a sketch of her time and place. I report some of the thoughts and soliloquies of a country... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 650 pages
...It has to me a value like that which many readers find in Madame Guyon,in Rahel,in Eugenie deGuerin, but it is purely original and hardly admits of a duplicate....portrait by selections from the diary of my heroine, premising a sketch of her time and place. I report some of the thoughts and soliloquies of a country... | |
 | Perry Miller - 2009 - 260 pages
...pungent observation, "I respect in a rich man the order of Providence." Emerson said that her journal "marks the precise time when the power of the old...to the influence of modern science and humanity"; still in her the old creed never so far yielded its power to the influence of modern humanity but that... | |
 | David E. Stannard - 1977 - 256 pages
...was born on the eve of the American Revolution. Her life, wrote her nephew Ralph Waldo Emerson, was "a fruit of Calvinism and New England, and marks the...to the influence of modern science and humanity." Mary Moody Emerson was obsessed with death. She longed for it. "For years," Emerson wrote, "she had... | |
 | L. Rust Hills - 1993 - 276 pages
...hardly have appeared out of New England; of an age now past, and of which I think no types survive. ... It is a fruit of Calvinism and New England, and marks...yielded to the influence of modern science and humanity. No need, I suppose, to point out the irony in how each generation through the centuries sees, in the... | |
 | Julius H. Rubin - 1994 - 321 pages
...a childhood of suffering and loss — a representative life in an era of social transformation that "marks the precise time when the power of the old...creed yielded to the influence of modern science and humanity."157 Conclusion In the eighteenth century, public religious fasts formed an integral part... | |
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