Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 128
... churches are not built on his principles , but on his tropes . Christianity became a Mythus , as the po- etic 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 ...
... churches are not built on his principles , but on his tropes . Christianity became a Mythus , as the po- etic 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 ...
Page 134
... Church seems to totter to its fall , almost all life extinct . On this occasion , any complaisance would be crim ... churches ; - this moaning of the heart because it is bereaved of the consolation , the hope , the grandeur that come ...
... Church seems to totter to its fall , almost all life extinct . On this occasion , any complaisance would be crim ... churches ; - this moaning of the heart because it is bereaved of the consolation , the hope , the grandeur that come ...
Page 135
... We are fain to wrap our cloaks about us , and secure , as best we can , a solitude that hears not . I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to say I would go to church no more . Men go , thought I ADDRESS . 135.
... We are fain to wrap our cloaks about us , and secure , as best we can , a solitude that hears not . I once heard a preacher who sorely tempted me to say I would go to church no more . Men go , thought I ADDRESS . 135.
Page 136
Addresses, and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson. to church no more . Men go , thought I , where they are wont to go , else had no soul entered the temple in the afternoon . A snow - storm was fall- ing around us . The snow - storm was real ...
Addresses, and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson. to church no more . Men go , thought I , where they are wont to go , else had no soul entered the temple in the afternoon . A snow - storm was fall- ing around us . The snow - storm was real ...
Page 137
... church . It seemed as if their houses were very un- entertaining , that they should prefer this thought- less clamor . It shows that there is a commanding attraction in the moral sentiment , that can lend a faint tint of light to ...
... church . It seemed as if their houses were very un- entertaining , that they should prefer this thought- less clamor . It shows that there is a commanding attraction in the moral sentiment , that can lend a faint tint of light to ...
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