Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 39
Page 104
... human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether . How many persons we meet in houses , whom we scarcely speak to , whom yet we honor , and who honor us ! How many we see in the street , or sit with in church , whom ...
... human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether . How many persons we meet in houses , whom we scarcely speak to , whom yet we honor , and who honor us ! How many we see in the street , or sit with in church , whom ...
Page 127
... human life is lost in waiting ! Let him not make his fellow - creatures wait . How many words and promises are promises of conversation ! Let his be words of fate . When he sees a folded and sealed scrap of paper float round the globe ...
... human life is lost in waiting ! Let him not make his fellow - creatures wait . How many words and promises are promises of conversation ! Let his be words of fate . When he sees a folded and sealed scrap of paper float round the globe ...
Page 133
... human crime , must have its out- let by human suffering . Unhappily , almost no man EMERSON'S ESSAYS 133.
... human crime , must have its out- let by human suffering . Unhappily , almost no man EMERSON'S ESSAYS 133.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acrostic action affection appear beautiful soul beauty become behold better black event Bonduca Cæsar Calvinistic cerning character child circle circumstance conversation divine doctrine Epaminondas eternal evanescent experience fable fact fear feel friendship genius gifts give Greek hand hath heart heaven heroism hour human intellect Last Judgment less light live look lose lover man's mind moral nature never noble numbers ourselves OVER-SOUL pass passion perfect persons Petrarch Phidias Phocion Pindar Plato Plotinus Plutarch poet poetry present proverb prudence Pyrrhonism relations religion reverence secret seek seems seen sense sensual sentiment Shakespeare society Socrates Sophocles soul speak spirit stand stoicism sweet teach thee things thou thought tion to-day to-morrow true truth universal virtue whilst whole wisdom wise words Xenophon youth Zoroaster