The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 10Houghton, Mifflin, 1904 - 461 pages |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. PS 1600 .F77 1704 V.10 1 1873 Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1873 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES BY.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. PS 1600 .F77 1704 V.10 1 1873 Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1873 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES BY.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1873 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON BOSTON AND NEW YORK.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1873 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON BOSTON AND NEW YORK.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. O " " NOTE F the pieces included in this volume the following , namely , those from the Dial , " Character , " " Plutarch " and the biographical sketches of Dr. Ripley , of Mr. Hoar and of Henry ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. O " " NOTE F the pieces included in this volume the following , namely , those from the Dial , " Character , " " Plutarch " and the biographical sketches of Dr. Ripley , of Mr. Hoar and of Henry ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. out and be prophetic . The fallacy consists in selecting a few insignificant hints when all are inspired with the same sense . As if one should exhaust his astonishment at the economy of his ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. out and be prophetic . The fallacy consists in selecting a few insignificant hints when all are inspired with the same sense . As if one should exhaust his astonishment at the economy of his ...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. the desired discovery of the guided balloon , are of this kind . Tramps are troublesome enough in the city and in the highways , but tramps fly- ing through the air and descending on the lonely ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Edward Waldo Emerson. the desired discovery of the guided balloon , are of this kind . Tramps are troublesome enough in the city and in the highways , but tramps fly- ing through the air and descending on the lonely ...
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Page 95 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain light of all our day, Are yet a master light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never...
Page 512 - O for a blast of that dread horn, On Fontarabian echoes borne, That to King Charles did come, When Rowland brave, and Olivier, And every paladin and peer, On Roncesvalles died...
Page 541 - When we have broken our god of tradition, and ceased from our god of rhetoric, then may God fire the heart with his presence.
Page 548 - Yourself a newborn bard of the Holy Ghost, cast behind you all conformity, and acquaint men at first hand with Deity.
Page 474 - The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length the middle-aged man concludes to build a wood-shed with them.
Page 541 - He spoke of miracles ; for he felt that man's life was a miracle, and all that man doth, and he knew that this daily miracle shines as the character ascends. But the word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression ; it is Monster.
Page 511 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can...
Page 599 - Folk say, a wizard to a northern king, At Christmas-tide such wondrous things did show, That through one window men beheld the spring, And through another saw the summer glow, And through a third the fruited vines arow, While still, unheard, but in its wonted way, Piped the drear wind of that December day.
Page 469 - I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before ; I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore.
Page 96 - ... to lay down his life for the sake of a truth, or in the cause of his country, or to save his son or his friend. And under the action of this sentiment of the Right, his heart and mind expand above himself, and above Nature. Though Love repine, and Reason chafe, There came a voice without reply, — " 'T is man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth he ought to die.