Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page 72
... hour of life in their authority and subsequent effect . Our faith comes in moments ; our vice is habitual . Yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences ...
... hour of life in their authority and subsequent effect . Our faith comes in moments ; our vice is habitual . Yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences ...
Page 74
... hour , Or stretch an hour to eternity . " We are often made to feel that there is another youth and age than that which is measured from the year of our natural birth . Some thoughts always find us young , and keep us so . Such a ...
... hour , Or stretch an hour to eternity . " We are often made to feel that there is another youth and age than that which is measured from the year of our natural birth . Some thoughts always find us young , and keep us so . Such a ...
Page 309
... hour finds that he knows nothing , by all their poems , of any of these fine things ; that he has conversed with the ... hour , that takes down the narrow walls of my soul , and extends its life and pulsation to the very horizon . That ...
... hour finds that he knows nothing , by all their poems , of any of these fine things ; that he has conversed with the ... hour , that takes down the narrow walls of my soul , and extends its life and pulsation to the very horizon . That ...
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