Select Writings of Ralph Waldo EmersonW. Scott, 1888 - 351 pages |
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Page 30
... hear the pretty pastoral of the betrothal of Rebecca and Isaac , in the morning of the world , read with circumstantiality in York minster , on the 13th January 1848 , to the decorous English audience , just fresh from the Times ...
... hear the pretty pastoral of the betrothal of Rebecca and Isaac , in the morning of the world , read with circumstantiality in York minster , on the 13th January 1848 , to the decorous English audience , just fresh from the Times ...
Page 35
... hear his discourse on the Hebrews in Egypt , and reads to them the Apostles ' Creed in Rommany . " When I had concluded , " he says , " I looked around me . The features of the assembly were twisted , and the eyes of all turned upon me ...
... hear his discourse on the Hebrews in Egypt , and reads to them the Apostles ' Creed in Rommany . " When I had concluded , " he says , " I looked around me . The features of the assembly were twisted , and the eyes of all turned upon me ...
Page 60
... hear a false statement , I could never stay there five minutes . But why come out ? the street is as false as the church , and when I get to my house , or to my manners , or to my speech , I have not got away from the lie . When we see ...
... hear a false statement , I could never stay there five minutes . But why come out ? the street is as false as the church , and when I get to my house , or to my manners , or to my speech , I have not got away from the lie . When we see ...
Page 65
... hear music , or when they read poetry , they are Radicals . In the circle of the rankest Tories that could be collected in England , Old or New , let a powerful and stimulating intellect , a man of great heart and mind , act on them ...
... hear music , or when they read poetry , they are Radicals . In the circle of the rankest Tories that could be collected in England , Old or New , let a powerful and stimulating intellect , a man of great heart and mind , act on them ...
Page 68
... hear ourselves confuted . We are haunted with a belief that you have a secret which it would highliest advantage us to learn , and we would force you to impart it to us , though it should bring us to prison or to worse extremity ...
... hear ourselves confuted . We are haunted with a belief that you have a secret which it would highliest advantage us to learn , and we would force you to impart it to us , though it should bring us to prison or to worse extremity ...
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action appear beauty behold believe Ben Jonson better Celt character church conversation divine doctrine Emerson England English Ernest Rhys eternal evil fact faith fear feel force genius give Goethe Greek Havelock Ellis hear heart heaven honour hour human idea individual inspiration instinct intellect justice labour live look man's manual labour Margaret Fuller means Milton mind moral nations nature never noble numbers opinion perfect persons Phidias philosophy Phocion Plato poet poetry political present race reform relations religion religious Richard of Devizes Saxon scholar secret seems sense sentiment Shakespeare society soul speak spirit stand sublime T. W. Rolleston talent thee things thou thought tion to-day true truth universe virtue WALTER SCOTT whilst whole wisdom wise wish words write