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" 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. "
The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 541
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 461 pages
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A Discourse on Religious Education: Delivered at Hingham, May 10, 1818 ...

Andrews Norton - 1818 - 1164 pages
...in the proper sense of the word, are of course discarded. " The very word Miracle," he tells us, " as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false...impression. It is Monster ; it is not one with the blowTRANSCENDENTALISM. ing clover and the falling rain." And when Christ spoke of miracles, it was...
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Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, Volumes 5-6

1848 - 916 pages
...on his tropes. Christianity became a Mythus, as the poetic teaching of Greece and of Egypt, before. He spoke of miracles ; for he felt that man's life...and he knew that this daily miracle shines, as the man is diviner. But the very word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...on his tropes. Christianity became a Mythus, as the poetic teaching of Greece and of Egypt, before. He spoke of miracles; for he felt that man's life...and he knew that this daily miracle shines, as the man is diviner. But the very word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression;...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...on his tropes. Christianity became a Mythus, as the poetic teaching of Greece and of Egypt, before. He spoke of miracles; for he felt that man's life...and he knew that this daily miracle shines, as the man is diviner. But the very word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression...
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Cooper's Journal: Or, Unfettered Thinker and Plain Speaker for Truth ...

Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 pages
...on his tropes. Christianity became a Mythus, as the poetic teaching of Greece and of Egypt, before. He spoke of miracles ; for he felt that man's life...and he knew that this daily miracle shines, as the man is diviner. But the very word miraele, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression,...
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Cooper's Journal: Or, Unfettered Thinker and Plain Speaker for Truth ...

Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 492 pages
...on his tropes. Christianity became a Mythus, as the poetic teaching of Greece and of Egypt, before. He spoke of miracles ; for he felt that man's life...and he knew that this daily miracle shines, as the man is diviner. But the very word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression,...
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Cooper's Journal: Or, Unfettered Thinker and Plain Speaker for ..., Volume 1

Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 488 pages
...became a Mythus, as the poetic teaching of Greece and of Egypt, before. He spoke of miracles ; for ho felt that man's life was a miracle, and all that man...and he knew that this daily miracle shines, as the man is diviner. But the very word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression,...
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Emerson, His Life and Writings

January Searle - 1855 - 94 pages
...on his tropes. Christianity became a mythus, as the poetic teaching of Greece and of Egypt, before. He spoke of miracles, for he felt that man's life was a miracle, and all that man dotb, and he knew that this daily miracle shines as the man is diviner. But the very word miracle,...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 98

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1856 - 596 pages
...universal laws which govern the course of events.' And to the same effect his brother idealist Emerson : ' The word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression — it is Monster.' — (Emerson's Christian Teacher.) The opinion of Miss Martineau is equally summary : 'I hold that...
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Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...and heavens are passing into his mind; and that he is drinking for ever the soul of God ! ' The very word Miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression ; it is a monster ; it is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain. . . . Man's life is a miracle,...
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