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 541by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 461 pagesFull view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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;... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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