Essays, First SeriesPhillips, Sampson & Company, 1852 |
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Page 70
... young and joyful , million - orbed , million - colored , will beam over the universe as on the first morning . to see , ― 2. It is for want of self - culture that the supersti- tion of Travelling , whose idols are Italy , England ...
... young and joyful , million - orbed , million - colored , will beam over the universe as on the first morning . to see , ― 2. It is for want of self - culture that the supersti- tion of Travelling , whose idols are Italy , England ...
Page 78
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Democrats from New Hampshire ! The Whigs of Maine ! the young patriot feels himself stronger than before by a new thousand of eyes and arms . In like manner the reformers summon conventions , and vote and resolve in ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Democrats from New Hampshire ! The Whigs of Maine ! the young patriot feels himself stronger than before by a new thousand of eyes and arms . In like manner the reformers summon conventions , and vote and resolve in ...
Page 83
... young , that on this subject life was ahead of theology , and the people knew more than the preachers taught . The documents , too , from which the doctrine is to be drawn , charmed my fan- cy by their endless variety , and lay always ...
... young , that on this subject life was ahead of theology , and the people knew more than the preachers taught . The documents , too , from which the doctrine is to be drawn , charmed my fan- cy by their endless variety , and lay always ...
Page 118
... young people are diseased with the theologi- cal problems of original sin , origin of evil , pre- destination , and the like . These never presented a practical difficulty to any man , - never darkened across any man's road , who did ...
... young people are diseased with the theologi- cal problems of original sin , origin of evil , pre- destination , and the like . These never presented a practical difficulty to any man , - never darkened across any man's road , who did ...
Page 122
... young people against their will in a pew , and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will . If we look wider , things are all alike ; laws , and letters , and creeds , and modes of living , seem a travestie ...
... young people against their will in a pew , and force the children to ask them questions for an hour against their will . If we look wider , things are all alike ; laws , and letters , and creeds , and modes of living , seem a travestie ...
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