 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end, is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness....his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature, though for cheap ends. Caratach, in Fletcher's Bonduca, when admonished to inquire the mind of the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end, is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness....his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature, though for cheap ends. Caratach, in Fletcher's Bonduca, when admonished to inquire the mind of the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness....his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature, though for cheap ends. Caratach, in Fletcher's Bonduca, when admonished to inquire the mind of the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end, is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism, and not unity in nature and consciousness....his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature, though for cheap ends. Caratach, in Fletcher's Bonduca, •when admonished to inquire the mind of the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...his works good. But prayer, as a means to effect a private end, is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism, and not unity in nature and consciousness....his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature, though for cheap ends. Caratach, in Fletcher's Bonduca, when admonished to inquire the mind of the... | |
 | 1848 - 596 pages
...there is no personal God, and every man has all-sufficiency in himself, there is no room for PRAYER. " As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not...his oar, are true prayers, heard throughout nature, though for cheap ends." —P. 42. As there is no personal God, and every man has all-sufficiency in... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end, is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness....As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not be. He will then see prayer in all action. The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end, is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness....As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not be. He will then see prayer in all action. The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness....his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature, though for cheap ends. Caratach, in Fletcher's Bonduca, when admonished to inquire the mind of the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...private end is meanness and theft. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. Ai soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg....his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature, though for cheap ends. Caratach, in Fletcher's Bonduca, when admonished to inquire the mind of the... | |
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As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action. The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar. are true prayers heard throughout nature,... 
