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" In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life— no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. "
The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: English traits. Conduct of life. Nature - Page 376
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904
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The Western Messenger, Volume 2

1836 - 444 pages
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Sketches of Martha's Vineyard and Other Reminiscences of Travel at Home, Etc

Samuel Adams Devens - 1838 - 230 pages
...passage : ' In the woods is perpetual youth ; within the plantations of God a decorum and sanctity reign ; a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest...not how he should tire of them in a thousand years.' Among other objects of interest, are the Unitarian Church, which is hardly equalled for imposing effect...
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Sketches of Martha's Vineyard and Other Reminiscences of Travel at Home, Etc

Samuel Adams Devens - 1838 - 228 pages
...passage : ' In the woods is perpetual youth ; within the plantations of God a decorum and sanctity reign ; a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire o/ them in a thousand years.' Among other objects of interest, are the Unitarian Church, which is hardly...
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The United Presbyterian Magazine, Volume 2

1848 - 596 pages
...negation, self-balanced, and swallowing up all relations, parts, and times within itself." — P. 65.* " In the woods we return to reason and faith. There...Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blythe air, and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball....
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest...faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life,—no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing on the...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...child. ]n the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God a decorum and sanctity reisjn ; a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees...to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befal me in life,—no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes) which Nature cannot repair. Standing...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 3

1849 - 448 pages
...a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth. "Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest...to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befal me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair. Standing...
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ...

New Church gen. confer - 1851 - 570 pages
...always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest...can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, which (leaving me my eyes) nature cannot repair. With the trees I am not alone and unacquainted : they...
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Merrimack: Or, Life at the Loom; a Tale

Day Kellogg Lee - 1854 - 378 pages
...perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, A decorum and sanctity reign, A perennial festival's dressed, And the guest sees not how he should tire Of them in a thousand years." The girls were sustained, and I called their attention to the passage on the landscape. Miss Mumby...
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The Collected Works of ... P. ...

Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 pages
...these plantations of God a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial VOL. X.— Critical Writings, 2. 14 festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he...thousand years. In the woods, we return to reason and faitL There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my...
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