The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: MiscellaniesHoughton, Mifflin, 1911 |
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... moral system ; that it presents men with truths which are their own reason , and enjoins practices that are their own justification ; that if miracles may be said to have been its evidence to the first Christians , they are not its ...
... moral system ; that it presents men with truths which are their own reason , and enjoins practices that are their own justification ; that if miracles may be said to have been its evidence to the first Christians , they are not its ...
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... moral charac- ter of the government . On the broaching of this question , a general expression of despondency , of disbelief that any good will accrue from a remonstrance on an act of fraud and robbery , appeared in those men to whom we ...
... moral charac- ter of the government . On the broaching of this question , a general expression of despondency , of disbelief that any good will accrue from a remonstrance on an act of fraud and robbery , appeared in those men to whom we ...
Page 95
... experience in affairs must have seen cause to appreciate the futility of opposition to the moral sentiment . However feeble the sufferer and however great the oppressor , it is in the nature LETTER TO PRESIDENT VAN BUREN 95.
... experience in affairs must have seen cause to appreciate the futility of opposition to the moral sentiment . However feeble the sufferer and however great the oppressor , it is in the nature LETTER TO PRESIDENT VAN BUREN 95.
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... moral nature . From the earliest monuments it appears that one race was victim and served the other races . In the oldest tem- ples of Egypt , negro captives are painted on the tombs of kings , in such attitudes as to show WEST INDIA ...
... moral nature . From the earliest monuments it appears that one race was victim and served the other races . In the oldest tem- ples of Egypt , negro captives are painted on the tombs of kings , in such attitudes as to show WEST INDIA ...
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... moral : the blood is anti - slavery : it runs cold in the veins : the stom- ach rises with disgust , and curses slavery . Well , so it happened ; a good man or woman , a coun- try boy or girl , it would so fall out , — once in a while ...
... moral : the blood is anti - slavery : it runs cold in the veins : the stom- ach rises with disgust , and curses slavery . Well , so it happened ; a good man or woman , a coun- try boy or girl , it would so fall out , — once in a while ...
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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.