Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 57
... of the present thought ; and new date and new create the whole . Whenever a mind is simple , and receives a divine wisdom , old things pass away , means , teachers , - texts , temples fall ; it lives now , SELF - RELIANCE . 57.
... of the present thought ; and new date and new create the whole . Whenever a mind is simple , and receives a divine wisdom , old things pass away , means , teachers , - texts , temples fall ; it lives now , SELF - RELIANCE . 57.
Page 58
Ralph Waldo Emerson. - texts , temples fall ; it lives now , and absorbs past and future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to it , one as much as another . All things are dissolved to their centre by their ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. - texts , temples fall ; it lives now , and absorbs past and future into the present hour . All things are made sacred by relation to it , one as much as another . All things are dissolved to their centre by their ...
Page 67
... falls on his feet , is worth a hundred of these city dolls . He walks abreast with his days , and feels no shame in not ' studying a profession , ' for he does not postpone his life , but lives already . He has not one chance , but a ...
... falls on his feet , is worth a hundred of these city dolls . He walks abreast with his days , and feels no shame in not ' studying a profession , ' for he does not postpone his life , but lives already . He has not one chance , but a ...
Page 76
... falling back on naked valor , and disencumbering it of all aids . The Emperor held it impossible to make a perfect army , says Las Casas , " without abolishing our arms , magazines , commissaries , and carriages , until , in imitation ...
... falling back on naked valor , and disencumbering it of all aids . The Emperor held it impossible to make a perfect army , says Las Casas , " without abolishing our arms , magazines , commissaries , and carriages , until , in imitation ...
Page 96
... fall . This voice of fable has in it somewhat divine . It came from thought above the will of the writer . That is the best part of each writer , which has noth- ing private in it ; that which he does not 96 ESSAY III .
... fall . This voice of fable has in it somewhat divine . It came from thought above the will of the writer . That is the best part of each writer , which has noth- ing private in it ; that which he does not 96 ESSAY III .
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