 It inspires awe and astonishment. How dear, how soothing to man, arises the idea of God, peopling the lonely place, effacing the scars of our mistakes and disappointments ! When we have broken our god of tradition and ceased from our god of rhetoric,...  The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 290by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876Full view - About this book
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 pages
...no prodigies, but the first death, and the first night, that deserve astonishment and sadness.'" 6. When we have broken our god of Tradition, and ceased from our god of Persuasion, then, God may fire our hearts, with his own presence ¡ but not before. 7. No love can... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...becomes God ; yet for ever and ever the influx of this better and universal self is new and unsearchable. It inspires awe and astonishment. How dear, how soothing...rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with his presence. It is the doubling of the heart itself, nay, the infinite enlargement of the heart with a power of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...God; yet for ever and ever the influx of this better and universal self is new and unsearchable. Ever it inspires awe and astonishment. How dear, how soothing...rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with his presence. It is the doubling of the heart itself, nay, the infinite enlargement of the heart with a power of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...better and universal self is new and unsearchable. Ever it inspires awe and astonishment. How ;lear, how soothing to man, arises the idea of God, peopling...rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with his presence. It is the doubling of the heart itself, nay, the infinite enlargement of the heart with a power of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...yet for ever and ever the influx of this better and universal self is new and un» searchable. Ever it inspires awe and astonishment. How dear, how soothing...rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with his presence. It is the doubling of the heart itself, nay, the infinite enlargement of the heart with a power of... | |
 | 1849 - 448 pages
...present moment, and the mere trifle having become porous to thought, and bibulous of the sea of light." " How dear, how soothing to man, arises the idea of...effacing the scars of our mistakes and disappointments ! "—Essays, pp. 239, 240, 241 — 242. He says the same thing in yet more rythmic notes : " Not from... | |
 | 1850 - 548 pages
...to thought, and bibulous of the sea of light." true The soul that ascendeth to worship the great " How dear, how soothing to man, arises the idea of...effacing the scars of our mistakes and disappointments!" — Essays, pp. 239, 240, 241 — 242. He says the same thing in yet more rythmic notes : " Not from... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...becomes God ; yet for ever and ever the influx of this better and universal self is new and unsearchable. It inspires awe and astonishment. How dear, how soothing...arises the idea of God, peopling the lonely place, efiacinz the scars of our mistakes and disappointments! When we have broken our god of tradition, and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...becomes God ; yet for ever and ever the influx of this better and universal self is new and unsearchable. It inspires awe and astonishment. How dear, how soothing...arises the idea of God, peopling the lonely place, effi the scars of our mistakes and disappointm When we have broken our god of tradition ceased from... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...becomes God; yet for ever and ever the influx of this better and universal self is new and unsearchable. It inspires awe and astonishment. How dear, how soothing...rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with his presence. It is the doubling of the heart itself, nay, the infinite enlargement of the heart with a power of... | |
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