Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page 27
... present , she does not rule her wealth . She is simply a good England , but no divinity , or wise and instructed soul . She , too , is in the stream of fate , one victim more in a common catastrophe . But being in the fault , she has ...
... present , she does not rule her wealth . She is simply a good England , but no divinity , or wise and instructed soul . She , too , is in the stream of fate , one victim more in a common catastrophe . But being in the fault , she has ...
Page 97
... present action of the soul of this world , clean from all vestige of tradition , and so the heart of man might be bathed by an inundation of eternal love , conversing with that which he knows was always , and always must be , because it ...
... present action of the soul of this world , clean from all vestige of tradition , and so the heart of man might be bathed by an inundation of eternal love , conversing with that which he knows was always , and always must be , because it ...
Page 123
... present thought ; and new date and new create the whole . Whenever a mind is simple , and receives a divine wisdom , old things pass away , -means , teachers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now , and absorbs past and future into the ...
... present thought ; and new date and new create the whole . Whenever a mind is simple , and receives a divine wisdom , old things pass away , -means , teachers , texts , temples fall ; it lives now , and absorbs past and future into the ...
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