Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonWalter Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page ix
... heart to heart - with any of his friends , nor even with his wife . He did not know how to be familiar . He was aware of his insufficiency in this respect , and makes several confessions in his letters of his unsociability and shyness ...
... heart to heart - with any of his friends , nor even with his wife . He did not know how to be familiar . He was aware of his insufficiency in this respect , and makes several confessions in his letters of his unsociability and shyness ...
Page xiv
... heart . It invested man , as the temple of the divine , with new significance . It raised a larger hope of human possibilities , a deeper faith in human freedom . To sum it up in the words of its able historian , Mr. Frothingham ...
... heart . It invested man , as the temple of the divine , with new significance . It raised a larger hope of human possibilities , a deeper faith in human freedom . To sum it up in the words of its able historian , Mr. Frothingham ...
Page xxvi
... heart and soul of all men being one , this bitterness of His and Mine ceases . His is mine . I am my brother , and my brother is me . " Society is not , then , with Emerson , an aggregation of disassociated , independent beings , but a ...
... heart and soul of all men being one , this bitterness of His and Mine ceases . His is mine . I am my brother , and my brother is me . " Society is not , then , with Emerson , an aggregation of disassociated , independent beings , but a ...
Page xxxiii
... heart in the face of the sorrow and discourage- ment which confront us . In the last resort , Emerson's function is , as Whitman well says , to educate beyond himself . His books are most of all a discipline in self - knowledge , self ...
... heart in the face of the sorrow and discourage- ment which confront us . In the last resort , Emerson's function is , as Whitman well says , to educate beyond himself . His books are most of all a discipline in self - knowledge , self ...
Page 7
... heart . Carlyle was a man from his youth , an author who did not need to hide from his readers , and as absolute a man of the world , unknown and exiled on that hill - farm , as if holding on his own terms what is best in London . He ...
... heart . Carlyle was a man from his youth , an author who did not need to hide from his readers , and as absolute a man of the world , unknown and exiled on that hill - farm , as if holding on his own terms what is best in London . He ...
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action appear beauty behold believe Ben Jonson better Celt character church conversation divine doctrine Emerson England English Ernest Rhys eternal evil fact faith fear feel force genius give Goethe Greek Havelock Ellis hear heart heaven honour hour human idea individual inspiration instinct intellect justice labour live look man's manual labour Margaret Fuller means Milton mind moral nations nature never noble numbers opinion perfect persons Phidias philosophy Phocion Plato poet poetry political present race reform relations religion religious Richard of Devizes Saxon scholar secret seems sense sentiment Shakespeare society soul speak spirit stand sublime T. W. Rolleston talent thee things thou thought tion to-day true truth universe virtue WALTER SCOTT whilst whole wisdom wise wish words write