 And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship? Then all things go to decay. Genius leaves the temple, to haunt the senate or the market. Literature becomes frivolous. Science is cold. The eye of youth is not lighted by the...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 1541850Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Fiske Barrett - 1842 - 470 pages
...Then all things go to decay. Genius leaves the temple, to haunt the senate, or the market. Literature becomes frivolous. Science is cold. The eye of youth...the hope of other worlds, and age is without honor. Society lives to trifles, and when men die we do not mention them." (Address delivered before the Senior... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1846 - 418 pages
...Then all things go to decay. Genius leaves the temple to haunt the senate, or the market. Literature becomes frivolous. Science is cold. The eye of youth...lighted by the hope of other worlds, and age is without honour. In the soul let the redemption be sought. In one soul, in your soul, there are resources for... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1847 - 492 pages
...things go to decay. Genius leaves the temple to haunt the senate, or the market. Literature hecomes frivolous. Science is cold. The eye of youth is not...the hope of other worlds, and age is without honor. In the Soul let the redemption he sought. In one soul, in your soul, there aro resources for the world.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...Then all things go to decay. Genius leaves the temple, to haunt the senate, or the market. Literature becomes frivolous. Science is cold. The eye of youth...lighted by the hope of other worlds, and age is without honour. Society lives to trifles, and when men die, we do not mention them. And now, my brothers, you... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...Then all things go to decay. Genius leaves the temple, to haunt the senate, or the market. Literature becomes frivolous. Science is cold. The eye of youth...lighted by the hope of other worlds; and age is without honour. Society lives to trifles; and when men die, we do not mention them. And now, my brothers, you... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...Then all things go to decay. Genius leaves the temple, to haunt the senate, or the market. Literature becomes frivolous. Science is cold. The eye of youth...the hope of other worlds, and age is without honor. Society lives to trifles, and when men die, we do not mention them. And now, my brothers, you will... | |
 | Abiel Abbot Livermore - 1854 - 276 pages
...even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them or the market. Literature becomes frivolous ; science is cold. The eye of youth...the hope of other worlds, and age is without honor. Society lives to trifles, and when men die, we do not mention them." — Who is blessed for ever. Amen.... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 pages
...allusion, all things go to decay ; genius leaves the temple to haunt the senate, or the market ; literature becomes frivolous ; science is cold ; the eye of youth is not lighted by the hope of other worlds ; the virtues of its soul decline — cheerfulness, susceptibility of simple pleasures, energy of will,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 pages
...Then all things go to decay. Genius leaves the temple, to haunt the senate, .or the market. Literature becomes frivolous. Science is cold. The eye of youth...the hope of other worlds, and age is without honor. Society lives to trifles, and when men die, we do not mention them. And now, my brothers, you will... | |
 | Sidney H. Morse, Joseph B. Marvin - 1866 - 560 pages
...Then all things go to decay. Genius leaves the temple, to haunt the senate, or the market. Literature becomes frivolous. Science is cold. The eye of youth...the hope of other worlds, and age is without honor. Society lives to trifles, and when men die, we do not mention them. And now, my brothers, you will... | |
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