Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 32
... hope . Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things ? Throw a stone into the stream , and the circles that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence . Man is conscious of a ...
... hope . Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour and is not reminded of the flux of all things ? Throw a stone into the stream , and the circles that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence . Man is conscious of a ...
Page 73
... com- position are best answered by announcing undis- covered regions of thought , and so communicating , through hope , new activity to the torpid spirit . I shall therefore conclude this essay with some traditions of PROSPECTS . 73.
... com- position are best answered by announcing undis- covered regions of thought , and so communicating , through hope , new activity to the torpid spirit . I shall therefore conclude this essay with some traditions of PROSPECTS . 73.
Page 83
... hope , and , perhaps , not enough of labor . We do not meet for games of strength or skill , for the recitation of histories , tragedies , and odes , like the ancient Greeks ; for parliaments of love and poesy , like the Troubadours ...
... hope , and , perhaps , not enough of labor . We do not meet for games of strength or skill , for the recitation of histories , tragedies , and odes , like the ancient Greeks ; for parliaments of love and poesy , like the Troubadours ...
Page 84
... hope I accept the topic which not only usage but the nature of our association seem to prescribe to this day , the AMERICAN SCHOLAR . Year by year we come up hither to read one more chapter of his biography . Let us inquire what light ...
... hope I accept the topic which not only usage but the nature of our association seem to prescribe to this day , the AMERICAN SCHOLAR . Year by year we come up hither to read one more chapter of his biography . Let us inquire what light ...
Page 106
... hope , in adverting to the doctrine that man is one . I believe man has been wronged ; he has wronged himself . He has almost lost the light that can lead him back to his prerogatives . Men are become of no account . Men in history ...
... hope , in adverting to the doctrine that man is one . I believe man has been wronged ; he has wronged himself . He has almost lost the light that can lead him back to his prerogatives . Men are become of no account . Men in history ...
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| Title | Nature: Addresses, and Lectures Volume 1 of Riverside ed. Complete works |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | 22 Oct 2013 |
| Length | 315 pages |
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