 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1882 - 888 pages
...Emerson, in a late number of the North American, May. 1878, makes a similar sigpificant admission. "I confess our later generation appears ungirt, frivolous,...with the religions of the last or Calvinistic age." "Luther would have cut his hand off sooner than write theses against the Pope, if he had suspected... | |
 | 1882 - 882 pages
...Emerson, in a late number of the North American, May, 1878, makes a similar significant admission. " I confess our later generation appears ungirt, frivolous,...with the religions of the last or Calvinistic age." " Luther would have cut his hand off sooner than write theses against the Pope, if he had suspected... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 404 pages
...Reformed Church, Scougal ; the mystics, Behmen and Swedenborg ; the Quakers, Fox and James Naylor. I confess our later generation appears ungirt, frivolous, compared with the religions of the last or Calviiiistic age. There was in the last century a serious habitual reference to the spiritual world,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 484 pages
...the Reformed Church, Scougal ; the mystics, Behmen and Swedenborg; the Quakers, Fox and James Naylor. I confess our later generation appears ungirt, frivolous, compared with the religions of tho last or Calvinistic age. There was in the last century a serious habitual reference to the spiritual... | |
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I confess our later generation appears ungirt, frivolous, compared with the religions of the last or Calviiiistic age. There was in the last century a serious habitual reference to the spiritual world, running through diaries, letters and conversation... 