 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 121by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900Full view - About this book
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 462 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! w We cannot stay amid the ruins. Neither will we rely on the New; and so we walk ever... | |
 | 1900 - 514 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... | |
 | William Williams - 1890 - 360 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... | |
 | Chauncey C. Starkweather - 1900 - 450 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... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 448 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... | |
 | Lewis George Janes - 1901 - 200 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 nerve us again. We cannot find aught so dear, so sweet, so graceful. But we sit and weep in vain. The voice of the Almighty saith... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 448 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 842 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, c Up and onward for evermore ! ' We cannot stay amid the ruins. Neither will we rely on the new ; and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 104 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,...aught so dear, so sweet, so graceful. But we sit and 67 weep in vain. The voice of the A mighty saith, « Up and onward f< evermore ! ' We cannot £lay... | |
 | Social Circle in Concord - 1903 - 170 pages
...round to him." " We are parlor soldiers. We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born." " But we sit and weep in vain. The voice of the Almighty saith, ' Up and. onward forever more ! ' " " Man is timid and apologetic ; he is no longer upright ; he dares not say, ' I... | |
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