Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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... hear the pretty pastoral of the betrothal of Rebecca and Isaac , in the morning of the world , read with circumstantiality in York minster , on the 13th January 1848 , to the decorous English audience , just fresh from the Times ...
... hear the pretty pastoral of the betrothal of Rebecca and Isaac , in the morning of the world , read with circumstantiality in York minster , on the 13th January 1848 , to the decorous English audience , just fresh from the Times ...
Page 124
... hear God himself , unless he speak the phraseology of I know not what David , or Jeremiah , or Paul . We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts , on a few lives . We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences of ...
... hear God himself , unless he speak the phraseology of I know not what David , or Jeremiah , or Paul . We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts , on a few lives . We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences of ...
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... hear these august laws of moral being so pronounced , as to fill my ear , and I feel ennobled by the offer of my ... hears not . I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to say , I would go to church no more . Men go , thought I ...
... hear these august laws of moral being so pronounced , as to fill my ear , and I feel ennobled by the offer of my ... hears not . I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to say , I would go to church no more . Men go , thought I ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | vii |
FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND I | 1 |
RACE AND ABILITY II | 11 |
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action animal appear beauty behold believe better character church conversation dæmon divine doctrine Emerson England English Ernest Rhys eternal evil eyes fact faith fear feel force genius give Havelock Ellis hear heart heaven honour hour human idea inspiration instinct intellect justice labour live look man's manual labour means Milton mind moral nations nature never numbers opinion party perfect persons Phidias philosophy Plato Plutarch poem poet poetry political Portrait present race reform relations religion religious Saxon scholar secret seems sense sentiment Shakespeare society solitude soul speak spirit stand Stoicism sublime SYDNEY DOBELL T. W. Rolleston talent thee things thou thought tion to-day Transcendental Transcendentalist true truth universal virtue Walter Lewin WALTER SCOTT whilst whole wise wish words write youth