 If malice and vanity wear the coat of philanthropy, shall that pass? If an angry bigot assumes this bountiful cause of Abolition, and comes to me with his last news from Barbadoes, why should I not say to him, 'Go love thy infant; love thy woodchopper:...  Emerson - Page 41by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899Full view - About this book
 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...last news from Barbadoes, why should I not say to him, ' Go, love thy infant ; love thy wood-chopper : be good-natured and modest ; have that grace ; and...tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy lore afar is spite at home.' Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is handsomer than... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...last news from Barbados, why should I not say to him, " Go love thy infant ; love thy wood-chopper ; be good-natured and modest; have that grace ; and...affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of... | |
 | 1841 - 640 pages
...last news from Barbadoes, why should I not say to him, ' Go, love thy infant ; love thy wood-chopper : be good-natured and modest ; have that grace ; and...affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it — else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached, as the counteraction of the doctrine... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...last news from Barbadoes, why should I not say to him, " Go, love thy infant ; love thy wood-chopper : be good-natured and modest ; have that grace ; and...affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it — else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached, as the counteraction of the doctrine... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...last news from Barbadoes, why should I not say to him, ' Go love thy infant ; love thy wood-chopper : be good-natured and modest: have that grace ; and...affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, — else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...last news from Barbadoes, why should I not say to him : " Go love thy infant ; love thy wood-chopper : be good-natured and modest: have that grace ; and...affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it — else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...last news from Barbadoes, why should I not say to him : " Go love thy infant ; love thy wood-chopper : be good-natured and modest: have that grace ; and...incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles oft'. Thy love afar is spite at home." Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is handsomer... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...last news from Barbadoes, why should I not say to him, ' Go love thy infant ; love thy wood-chopper : be good-natured and modest : have that grace ; and...affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, — else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...last news from Barbadoes, why should I not say to him, ' Go love thy infant ; love thy wood-chopper : be good-natured and modest : have that grace ; and...affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, — else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine... | |
 | 1849 - 448 pages
...aversion." " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature, the only wrong what is against it." " Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love." " Your goodness must have some edge to it." " Do your work and you shall reinforce yourself." " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of... | |
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