The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes, Volume 11Riverside Press, 1904 |
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... American Civilization " had been a portion of the article of that name in the Atlantic in 1862. " The Fortune of the Republic " also had been printed as a pamphlet in 1874. Mr. Cabot said in his prefatory note , " In none was any change ...
... American Civilization " had been a portion of the article of that name in the Atlantic in 1862. " The Fortune of the Republic " also had been printed as a pamphlet in 1874. Mr. Cabot said in his prefatory note , " In none was any change ...
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... IX . SPEECH ON AFFAIRS IN KANSAS 253 X. JOHN BROWN SPEECH AT — BOSTON 265 XI . JOHN BROWN SPEECH AT SALEM XII . THEODORE PARKER XIII . AMERICAN CIVILIZATION 275 283 295 XIV . THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMA- TION XV . ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
... IX . SPEECH ON AFFAIRS IN KANSAS 253 X. JOHN BROWN SPEECH AT — BOSTON 265 XI . JOHN BROWN SPEECH AT SALEM XII . THEODORE PARKER XIII . AMERICAN CIVILIZATION 275 283 295 XIV . THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMA- TION XV . ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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... American forest . The landscape before them was fair , if it was strange and rude . The little flower which at this season stars our woods and roadsides with its profuse blooms , might at- tract even eyes as stern as theirs with its ...
... American forest . The landscape before them was fair , if it was strange and rude . The little flower which at this season stars our woods and roadsides with its profuse blooms , might at- tract even eyes as stern as theirs with its ...
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... American colonies . And though we cannot but be alarmed at the great majority , in the British parliament , for the imposition of unconstitutional taxes on the colonies , yet , it gives life and strength to every attempt to oppose them ...
... American colonies . And though we cannot but be alarmed at the great majority , in the British parliament , for the imposition of unconstitutional taxes on the colonies , yet , it gives life and strength to every attempt to oppose them ...
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... America , for the sole purpose of raising a revenue from hence ; to render the design . abortive , we will not , in this town , either by our- selves , or any from or under us , buy , sell , or use of the East India Company's tea , or ...
... America , for the sole purpose of raising a revenue from hence ; to render the design . abortive , we will not , in this town , either by our- selves , or any from or under us , buy , sell , or use of the East India Company's tea , or ...
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Page 314 - Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him.
Page 1 - I LIKE a church; I like a cowl; I love a prophet of the soul; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains, or pensive smiles; Yet not for all his faith can see Would I that cowled churchman be. Why should the vest on him allure, Which I could not on me endure? Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought; Never from lips of cunning fell The thrilling Delphic oracle; Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible...
Page 328 - Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote: For him her Old-World moulds aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true.
Page 590 - Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?
Page 215 - Of all we loved and honored, naught Save power remains, — A fallen angel's pride of thought, Still strong in chains. All else is gone : from those great eyes The soul has fled : When faith is lost, when honor dies, The man is dead!
Page 396 - As they sat by the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor.
Page 216 - Shakespeare was of us, Milton was for us. Burns, Shelley, were with us— they watch from their graves! He alone breaks from the van and the freemen. He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves! We shall march prospering, — not thro...
Page 600 - I endeavored to act up to that instruction. I say I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons.
Page 600 - I believe that to have interfered as I have done — as I have always freely admitted I have done — in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right Now,. if it is deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with...
Page 645 - I will divide my goods; Call in the wretch and slave: None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have.