 Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness. Willingly does she follow his steps with the rose and the violet, and bend her lines of grandeur and grace to the decoration of her darling child. Only let his...  NATURE, ADDRESSES, AND LECTURES - Page 23by RALPH WALDO EMERSON - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 744 pages
...scaflblci. " But," to use the simple narrative of his biographer, " the multitude imagined they saw Liberty and Virtue sitting by his side." In private places,...Willingly does she follow his steps with the rose and violet, and bind her lines of grandeur and grace to the decoration of her darling child : only let... | |
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...on his way to the scaffold. " But," his biographer says, " the multitude imagined they saw liberty and virtue sitting by his side." In private places,...draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...scaffold. " But," to use the simple narrative of his biographer, " the multitude imagined they saw liberty and virtue sitting by his side." In private places,...the sky as its temple, the sun as its candle. Nature stretcheth out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness. Willingly does... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...scaffold. " But," to use the simple narrative of his biographer, " the multitude imagined they saw Liberty and Virtue sitting by his side." In private places,...the sky as its temple, the sun as its candle. Nature stretcheth out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness. "Willingly does... | |
 | 1848 - 916 pages
...instantly on the eternal law." " Nature is a great shadow pointing always to the sun behind us." " In private places, among sordid objects, an act of...itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its candle." " To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...on his way to the scaffold. " But," his biographer says, " the multitude imagined they saw liberty and virtue sitting by his side." In private places,...sky as its te'mple, the sun as its candle. Nature stretcheth out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness. Willingly does... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 pages
...on his way to the scaffold. " But," his biographer says, " the multitude imagined they saw liberty and virtue sitting by his side." In private places,...the sky as its temple, the sun as its candle. Nature stretcheth out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness. Willingly does... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck - 1856 - 816 pages
...on his way to the scaffold. " But," his biographer says, " the multitude imagined they saw liberty and virtue sitting by his side." In private places,...the sky as its temple, the sun as its candle. Nature stretcheth out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness. Willingly does... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 pages
...on his way to the scaffold. " But," his biographer says, " the multitude imagined they saw liberty and virtue sitting by his side." In private places,...draw to itself the sky as its temple, the sun as its cradle. Nature stretches out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness.... | |
 | 1856 - 386 pages
...moon, and it is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. In private places, among sordid objects, an act of...the sky as its temple, the sun as its candle. Nature stretcheth out her arms to embrace man, only let his thoughts be of equal greatness. Willingly does... | |
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