The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: MiscellaniesHoughton, Mifflin, 1911 |
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... reasons : ( 1 ) because it was a local custom , and unsuitable in western countries ; and ( 2 ) because it was typical , and all understood that humility is the thing signified . But the Passover was local too , and does not concern us ...
... reasons : ( 1 ) because it was a local custom , and unsuitable in western countries ; and ( 2 ) because it was typical , and all understood that humility is the thing signified . But the Passover was local too , and does not concern us ...
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... reason for his personal friends to remember their friend and repeat his words . It was only too probable that among the half - converted Pagans and Jews , any rite , any form , would find favor , whilst yet unable to comprehend the ...
... reason for his personal friends to remember their friend and repeat his words . It was only too probable that among the half - converted Pagans and Jews , any rite , any form , would find favor , whilst yet unable to comprehend the ...
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... reason , if it is remem- bered that St. Paul was living in the lifetime of all the apostles who could give him an account of the transaction ; and it is contrary to all rea- son to suppose that God should work a miracle to convey ...
... reason , if it is remem- bered that St. Paul was living in the lifetime of all the apostles who could give him an account of the transaction ; and it is contrary to all rea- son to suppose that God should work a miracle to convey ...
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... reason enough why I should abandon it . If I believed it was enjoined by Jesus on his dis- ciples , and that he even contemplated making permanent this mode of commemoration , every way agreeable to an Eastern mind , and yet on trial it ...
... reason enough why I should abandon it . If I believed it was enjoined by Jesus on his dis- ciples , and that he even contemplated making permanent this mode of commemoration , every way agreeable to an Eastern mind , and yet on trial it ...
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... , is unreasonable , and it is alien to the spirit of Christ . If I under- stand the distinction of Christianity , the reason why it is to be preferred over all other systems and is divine is this , that it is a 20 THE LORD'S SUPPER.
... , is unreasonable , and it is alien to the spirit of Christ . If I under- stand the distinction of Christianity , the reason why it is to be preferred over all other systems and is divine is this , that it is a 20 THE LORD'S SUPPER.
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Page 314 - Pay ransom to the owner, And fill the bag to the brim. Who is the owner? The slave is owner, And ever was. Pay him.
Page 1 - I LIKE a church; I like a cowl; I love a prophet of the soul; And on my heart monastic aisles Fall like sweet strains, or pensive smiles; Yet not for all his faith can see Would I that cowled churchman be. Why should the vest on him allure, Which I could not on me endure? Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought; Never from lips of cunning fell The thrilling Delphic oracle; Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible...
Page 328 - Nature, they say, doth dote, And cannot make a man Save on some worn-out plan, Repeating us by rote: For him her Old-World moulds aside she threw, And, choosing sweet clay from the breast Of the unexhausted West, With stuff untainted shaped a hero new, Wise, steadfast in the strength of God, and true.
Page 590 - Not now as a servant, but above a servant, a brother beloved, specially to me, but how much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?
Page 645 - I will divide my goods; Call in the wretch and slave: None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have.
Page 396 - Boston Hymn READ IN MUSIC HALL, JANUARY I, 1863 The word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims came, As they sat by the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame. God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor.
Page 2 - The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables yet unbroken ; The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak, or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind. One accent of the Holy Ghost The heedless world hath never lost.
Page 216 - Shakespeare was of us, Milton was for us. Burns, Shelley, were with us— they watch from their graves! He alone breaks from the van and the freemen. He alone sinks to the rear and the slaves! We shall march prospering, — not thro...
Page 215 - Of all we loved and honored, naught Save power remains, — A fallen angel's pride of thought, Still strong in chains. All else is gone : from those great eyes The soul has fled : When faith is lost, when honor dies, The man is dead!
Page 600 - I endeavored to act up to that instruction. I say I am yet too young to understand that God is any respecter of persons.