The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 |
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Page xi
... stars in heaven shall glow with a kindlier beam , that I have lived . I am primarily engaged to my- self to be a public servant of all the gods , to de- monstrate to all men that there is intelligence and good will at the heart of ...
... stars in heaven shall glow with a kindlier beam , that I have lived . I am primarily engaged to my- self to be a public servant of all the gods , to de- monstrate to all men that there is intelligence and good will at the heart of ...
Page 7
... stars . The rays that come from those heavenly worlds will separate between him and what he touches . One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design , to give man , in the heavenly bodies , the perpetual presence ...
... stars . The rays that come from those heavenly worlds will separate between him and what he touches . One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design , to give man , in the heavenly bodies , the perpetual presence ...
Page 267
... star has turned out to be a planet or an aster- oid : only a few are the fixed stars which have no parallax , or none for us . The change and de- cline of old reputations are the gracious marks of our own growth . Slowly , like light of ...
... star has turned out to be a planet or an aster- oid : only a few are the fixed stars which have no parallax , or none for us . The change and de- cline of old reputations are the gracious marks of our own growth . Slowly , like light of ...
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action Alcott American appears beauty behold benefit better Boston Bronson Alcott Brook Farm Cabot called Carlyle character church common conservatism divine doctrine earth Emerson England essay exist F. B. Sanborn fact faith feel garden genius George William Curtis give heart heaven Henry Thoreau Heracleitus honor hope hour human ideas inspiration intellect John Sterling Journal labor land lecture light live look means ment mind moral nature never noble Over-Soul Paul of Russia persons Phi Beta Kappa philosophy plant Plato Plotinus Poems poet poetry Ralph Waldo Emerson reform religion scholar seems sense sentiment society solitude soul speak spirit stand stars sublime things thou thought tion trade Transcendentalist true truth ture universal virtue whilst whole wish words writing Xenophanes young youth