The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: MiscellaniesHoughton, Mifflin, 1911 |
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... courses , a moving provocation to works like his , any act or meeting which tends to awaken a pure thought , a flow of love , an original de- sign of virtue , I call a worthy , a true commemo- ration . 4. The importance ascribed to this ...
... courses , a moving provocation to works like his , any act or meeting which tends to awaken a pure thought , a flow of love , an original de- sign of virtue , I call a worthy , a true commemo- ration . 4. The importance ascribed to this ...
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... course of two years and a half . Hindered from speaking , some of these dared to print the reasons of their dis- sent , and were punished with imprisonment or mutilation . This severity brought some of the best men in England to ...
... course of two years and a half . Hindered from speaking , some of these dared to print the reasons of their dis- sent , and were punished with imprisonment or mutilation . This severity brought some of the best men in England to ...
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... course of events , Concord and the other plantations found themselves separate and independent of Boston , with certain rights of their own , which , what they were , time alone could fully determine ; enjoying , at the same time , a ...
... course of events , Concord and the other plantations found themselves separate and independent of Boston , with certain rights of their own , which , what they were , time alone could fully determine ; enjoying , at the same time , a ...
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... courses which the English were taking for their good ; for , said he , all the time you have lived after the Indian fashion , under the power of the higher sachems , what did they care for you ? They took away your skins , your kettles ...
... courses which the English were taking for their good ; for , said he , all the time you have lived after the Indian fashion , under the power of the higher sachems , what did they care for you ? They took away your skins , your kettles ...
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... course of the war the town did not depart from this pledge it had given . Its little population of 1300 souls behaved like a party to the contest . The number of its troops constantly in service is very great . Its pecuniary burdens are ...
... course of the war the town did not depart from this pledge it had given . Its little population of 1300 souls behaved like a party to the contest . The number of its troops constantly in service is very great . Its pecuniary burdens are ...
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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.