| James Elliot Cabot - 1887 - 408 pages
...the pulpit, and that a happier day might restore him to it. He writes in his journal in 1840 : — " In all my lectures I have taught one doctrine, namely,...This the people accept readily enough and even with loud commendation as long as I call the lecture Art, or Politics, or Literature, or the Household ;... | |
| William Rounseville Alger - 1889 - 856 pages
...the meaning of infinity without recognizing its immortality. " In all my lectures," Emerson wrote, " I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man." Also Saint Thomas, one of the greatest among the supreme thinkers, says, " In that manner wherein our... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 614 pages
...this growing inclination in all persons who aim to speak the truth, for manual labor and the farm.1 In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely,...This the people accept readily enough, and even with i Here follow passages printed in " Man the Reformer" (Nature, Addresses, and Lectures, pp. 233, 238).... | |
| John Burroughs - 1922 - 324 pages
...others. Whatever he called it, his theme, as he himself confesses, was always fundamentally the same: " In all my lectures I have taught one doctrine, namely,...This the people accept readily enough and even with loud commendations as long as I call the lecture Art or Politics, or Literature, or the Household,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 pages
...words, "the tyranny of the masses." He was all for the individual, and wrote in his diary in 1840, "In my lectures I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man." Emerson's goal was personal liberty; his gospel, the self-sufficiency of the individual; his philosophy,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 386 pages
...easily see in Boston and Cambridge and the villages also — that what men want is a Religion. April 7 In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely,...This the people accept readily enough, and even with loud commendation, as long as I call the lecture Art, or Politics, or Literature, or the Household;... | |
| 1931 - 804 pages
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| Newton Dillaway - 1936 - 432 pages
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