The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: MiscellaniesHoughton, Mifflin, 1911 |
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... and sea And make just laws below the sun , As planets faithful be . I cause from every creature His proper good to flow : As much as he is and doeth , So much he shall bestow . HISTORICAL DISCOURSE FE ELLOW CITIZENS : The town of Con-
... and sea And make just laws below the sun , As planets faithful be . I cause from every creature His proper good to flow : As much as he is and doeth , So much he shall bestow . HISTORICAL DISCOURSE FE ELLOW CITIZENS : The town of Con-
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. HISTORICAL DISCOURSE FE ELLOW CITIZENS : The town of Con- cord begins , this day , the third century of its history . By a common consent , the people of New England , for a few years past , as ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. HISTORICAL DISCOURSE FE ELLOW CITIZENS : The town of Con- cord begins , this day , the third century of its history . By a common consent , the people of New England , for a few years past , as ...
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... citizens , this first recorded political act of our fathers , this tax assessed on its inhab- itants by a town , is the most important event in their civil history , implying , as it does , the exercise of a sovereign power , and ...
... citizens , this first recorded political act of our fathers , this tax assessed on its inhab- itants by a town , is the most important event in their civil history , implying , as it does , the exercise of a sovereign power , and ...
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... citizens , is an imperfect sketch of the history of Concord . I have been greatly indebted , in preparing this sketch , to the printed but unpublished History of this town , furnished me by the unhesitating kindness of its author , long ...
... citizens , is an imperfect sketch of the history of Concord . I have been greatly indebted , in preparing this sketch , to the printed but unpublished History of this town , furnished me by the unhesitating kindness of its author , long ...
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... citizens ; let not the solemn shadows of two hundred years , this day , fall over us in vain . I feel some unwillingness to quit the re- membrance of the past . With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old . Every ...
... citizens ; let not the solemn shadows of two hundred years , this day , fall over us in vain . I feel some unwillingness to quit the re- membrance of the past . With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old . Every ...
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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 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 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 645 - I will divide my goods; Call in the wretch and slave: None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have.
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 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 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.