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" We are idolaters of the old. We do not believe in the riches of the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence. We do not believe there is any force in today to rival or recreate that beautiful yesterday. We linger in the ruins of the old tent, where... "
Complete Works - Page 121
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900
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A Compendium of American Literature: Chronologically Arranged, with ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 pages
...beautiful yesterday. We linger in the ruins of the old tent, where once we had bread and shelter and organs, nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover,...amid the ruins. Neither will we rely on the new; and HO we walk ever with reverted eyes, like those monsters who look backwards. 1 An English critic thus...
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A compendium of American literature, arranged by C.D. Cleveland. Stereotyped ed

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...beautiful yesterday. We linger in the ruins of the old tent, where once we had bread and shelter and organs, nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover,...reverted eyes, like those monsters who look backwards. 1 An English critic thns speaks of him: — "Mr. Emerson possesses so many zharaoteristirs of genius...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 796 pages
...linger in the ruins of the old tent, where once we had bread and shelter and organs, nor belicve th;it the spirit can feed, cover, and nerve us again. We...cannot again find aught so dear, so sweet, so graceful. Hut we sit and weep in vain. The voice of the Almighty saith, "Tip and onward for evermore!" We cannot...
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A Compendium of American Literature, Chronologically Arranged: With ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 798 pages
...beautiful yesterday. We linger in the ruins of the old tent, where once we had bread and shelter and organs, nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover,...reverted eyes, like those monsters who look backwards. 1 An English critic thus speaks of him : — " Mr. Emerson possesses so mnny star&ctcristics of genius...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...beautiful yesterday. We linger in the ruins of the old tent, whore once we had bread and shelter and organs, nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover,...so sweet, so graceful. But we sit and weep in vain. Tho voice of the Almighty saith, ' Up and onward forevcrmoro ! ' We cannot stay amid the ruins. Neither...
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Monthly Packet, Volume 17

1874 - 664 pages
...sake. CHAPTER XV. RETROSPECT. We linger in the ruins of the old tent We cannot again find might no dear, so sweet, so graceful. But we sit and weep in...onward, for evermore.' We cannot stay amid the ruins. li. \V. Emerson. ON this day on which I write — a wild cold day of March — four yean and more have...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: In Two Volumes, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...beautiful yesterday. We linger in the ruins of the old tent, where once we had bread and shelter and organs, nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover,...vain. The voice of the Almighty saith, ' Up and onward forevermore ! ' We cannot stay amid the ruins. Neither will we rely on the new ; and so we walk ever...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 pages
...beautiful yesterday. We linger in the ruins of the old tent, where once we had bread and shelter and organs, nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover,...vain. The voice of the Almighty saith, ' Up and onward forevermore ! ' We cannot stay amid the ruins. Neither will we rely on the new ; and so we walk ever...
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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...beantiful yesterday. We linger in the ruins of the old tent, where once we had bread and shelter and organs, nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover,...vain. The voice of the Almighty saith, ' Up and onward forevermore ! ' We cannot stay amid the ruins. Neither will we rely on the new ; and so we walk ever...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...beautiful yesterday. We linger in the ruins of the old tent where once we had bread and shelter and organs, nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover,...and weep in vain. The voice of the Almighty saith, l Up and onward for evermore ! ' We cannot stay amid the ruins. Neither will we rely on the new ; and...
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