The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In 2 Volumes. [Inhalt. Vol. I: Miscellanies. - Essays. Vol. II: Representative Men. - English Traits. - Conduct of Life.]. I, Volume 1Fields, Osgood, & Company, 1870 |
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Page 66
... thee will I serve , day and night , in great , in small , that I may be not virtuous , but virtue ' ; then is the end of the creation - answered , and God is well pleased . The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the ...
... thee will I serve , day and night , in great , in small , that I may be not virtuous , but virtue ' ; then is the end of the creation - answered , and God is well pleased . The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the ...
Page 70
... thee , when thou also thinkest as I now think . ' But what a distortion did his doctrine and memory suffer in the same , in the next , and the following ages ! There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the ...
... thee , when thou also thinkest as I now think . ' But what a distortion did his doctrine and memory suffer in the same , in the next , and the following ages ! There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the ...
Page 106
... thee ; any wares which thou couldst buy or sell , so large is thy love and ambition , - thine and not theirs is the hour . Smooth thy brow , and hope and love on , for the kind heaven justifies thee , and the whole world feels that thou ...
... thee ; any wares which thou couldst buy or sell , so large is thy love and ambition , - thine and not theirs is the hour . Smooth thy brow , and hope and love on , for the kind heaven justifies thee , and the whole world feels that thou ...
Page 112
... thee , O rich and various Man ! thou palace of sight and sound , carrying in thy senses the morning and the night and the unfathomable galaxy ; in thy brain , the geometry of the City of God ; in thy heart , the bower of love and the ...
... thee , O rich and various Man ! thou palace of sight and sound , carrying in thy senses the morning and the night and the unfathomable galaxy ; in thy brain , the geometry of the City of God ; in thy heart , the bower of love and the ...
Page 169
... thee Naples , Florence , and Venice , for thee the fair Mediterranean , the sunny Adriatic ; for thee both Indies smile ; for thee the hospitable North opens its heated palaces . under the polar circle ; for thee roads have been cut in ...
... thee Naples , Florence , and Venice , for thee the fair Mediterranean , the sunny Adriatic ; for thee both Indies smile ; for thee the hospitable North opens its heated palaces . under the polar circle ; for thee roads have been cut in ...
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