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" If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side and admit of being compared ; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope ; when the historic glories... "
The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In Two Volumes - Page 59
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875
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The Western Messenger, Volume 4

James Freeman Clarke, William Henry Channing, James Handasyd Perkins - 1837 - 440 pages
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The Monthly magazine

Monthly literary register - 1840 - 694 pages
...in the age of revolution ? when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear...old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of tlie new era? This time—like all times—is a very good one, if we knew what to do with it." That...
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared ; when the energies of all men are searched by fear...one, if we but know what to do with it. I read with some joy of the auspicious signs of the coming days, as they glimmer already through poetry and art,...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 64

1889 - 876 pages
...says, " If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of revolution, . . . when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope ? " New England, for many years before the civil war, was the scene of a slow moral revolution, which...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays ..., Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...the age of Revolution ; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared ; when the energies of all men are searched by fear...one, if we but know what to do with it. I read with some joy of the auspicious signs of the coming days, as they glimmer already through poetry and art,...
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Nature: Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 326 pages
...the age of Revolution ; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared ; when the energies of all men are searched by fear...historic glories of the old can be compensated by the ricli possibilities of the new era ? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know...
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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ..., Volume 5

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 328 pages
...the age of Revolution.; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared ; when the energies of all men are searched by fear...compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time,like alltimes^is a very_.gflod one, if we but know whatjo dp_with_iL I read with joy some of the...
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Representative Men: Nature, Addresses and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 674 pages
...not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side and admit of being compared ; when the energies of all men are searched by fear...one, if we but know what to do with it. I read with some joy of the auspicious signs of the coming days, as they glimmer already through poetry and art,...
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Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 394 pages
...not the age of Revolution ; when the old and the new stand side by side and admit of being compared ; when the energies of all men are searched by fear...one, if we but know what to do with it. I read with some joy of the auspicious signs of the coming days, as they glimmer already through poetry and art,...
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Works, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 392 pages
...not the age of Revolution ; when the old and the new stand side by side and admit of being compared ; when the energies of all men are searched by fear...one, if we but know what to do with it. I read with some joy of the auspicious signs of the coming days, as they glimmer already through poetry and art,...
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