Nature: Addresses, and LecturesHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 - 315 pages |
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Page 102
... trade , or war , or man , is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half , as if all depended on this particular up or down . The odds are that the whole question is not worth 102 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR .
... trade , or war , or man , is cried up by half mankind and cried down by the other half , as if all depended on this particular up or down . The odds are that the whole question is not worth 102 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR .
Page 103
Addresses, and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson. The odds are that the whole question is not worth the poorest thought which the scholar has lost in listening to the controversy . Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun ...
Addresses, and Lectures Ralph Waldo Emerson. The odds are that the whole question is not worth the poorest thought which the scholar has lost in listening to the controversy . Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun ...
Page 104
... questions , hiding his head like an ostrich in the flowering bushes , peeping into microscopes , and turning rhymes , as a boy whistles to keep his courage up . So is the danger a danger still ; so is the fear worse . Manlike let him ...
... questions , hiding his head like an ostrich in the flowering bushes , peeping into microscopes , and turning rhymes , as a boy whistles to keep his courage up . So is the danger a danger still ; so is the fear worse . Manlike let him ...
Page 146
... question , that the angel is shown . But these are heights that we can scarce remember and look up to without contrition and shame . Let us thank God that such things exist . The And now let us do what we can to 146 ADDRESS .
... question , that the angel is shown . But these are heights that we can scarce remember and look up to without contrition and shame . Let us thank God that such things exist . The And now let us do what we can to 146 ADDRESS .
Page 147
... question returns , What shall we do ? I confess , all attempts to project and establish a Cultus with new rites and forms , seem to me vain . Faith makes us , and not we it , and faith makes its own forms . All attempts to contrive a ...
... question returns , What shall we do ? I confess , all attempts to project and establish a Cultus with new rites and forms , seem to me vain . Faith makes us , and not we it , and faith makes its own forms . All attempts to contrive a ...
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