 I think that our Dial ought not to be a mere literary journal, but that the times demand of us all a more earnest aim. It ought to contain the best advice on the topics of Government, Temperance, Abolition, Trade, and Domestic Life. It might well add...  A. Bronson Alcott: His Life and Philosophy - Page 339by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, William Torrey Harris - 1893Full view - About this book
 | 1885 - 460 pages
...hopes in his diary : " And now I think our ' Dial ' ought not to be a mere literary journal, but that the times demand of us all a more earnest aim. It...devoted wisdom of the best men in the land. It should — should it not ? — be a degree nearer to the hodiernal facts than my writings are. I wish to write... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 456 pages
...his diary of the same date : — " I think our Dial ought not to be a mere literary journal, but that the times demand of us all a more earnest aim. It...Abolition, Trade, and Domestic Life. It might well add such poetry and sentiment as will now constitute its best merit. Yet it ought to go straight into life,... | |
 | James Elliot Cabot - 1887 - 468 pages
...Temperance, Abolition, Trade, and Domestic Life. It might well add such poetry and sentiment as will now constitute its best merit. Yet it ought to go straight...into life, with the devoted wisdom of the best men and women in the land. It should — should it not ? — be a degree nearer to the hodiernal facts... | |
 | 1891 - 850 pages
...others, came out in 1840, and Emerson had very earnest wishes regarding it. He urged that it should contain the best advice on the topics of Government, Temperance, Abolition, Trade, and Domestic Life. Poetry and Sentiment it should certainly have, but it should not be a mere literary journal; it should... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1899 - 960 pages
...air ; among other things to the same effect, he said in his diary : " It ought to contain the beet advice on the topics of government, temperance, abolition, trade, and domestic life. . . . It ought to go straight into life with the devoted wisdom of the best men in the land. It should — should... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1902 - 224 pages
...wrote : " I think our ' Dial ' ought not to be a mere literary journal, but that the times demand of all a more earnest aim. It ought to contain the best...Abolition, Trade, and Domestic Life. It might well add such poetry and sentiment as will now constitute its chief merit. Yet it ought to go straight into... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 520 pages
...Appendix. Page 280, note I. When the Dial was under consideration, Mr. Emerson wrote in his diary, " It ought to contain the best advice on the topics...Abolition, Trade and Domestic Life. It might well add such poetry and sentiment as will now constitute its best merit." When he was urged to edit it, he... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 524 pages
...Appendix. Page 280, note I. When the Dial was under consideration, Mr. Emerson wrote in his diary, " It ought to contain the best advice on the topics...Abolition, Trade and Domestic Life. It might well add such poetry and sentiment as will now constitute its best merit." Wfce» he wm Kgrd a» <& it, be wine:... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 632 pages
...Emerson's relation to it.] And now I think that our Dial ought not to be a mere literary journal, but that the times demand of us all a more earnest aim. It...into life with the devoted wisdom of the best men and women in the land. It should — should it not? — be a degree nearer to the hodiurnal facts than... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 620 pages
...relation to it.] And now I think that our Dial ought not to be a mere literary journal, but that the rimes demand of us all a more earnest aim. It ought to contain...into life with the devoted wisdom of the best men and women in the land. It should — should it not? — be a degree nearer to the hodiurnal facts than... | |
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