 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 pages
...will then see prayer in all action. The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his...regrets. Discontent is the want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 460 pages
...will then see prayer in all action. The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his...in our endeavors ; Our valors are our best gods." f Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Disconjgnt is the want of self-reliance; it is infirmity... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 pages
...will then see prayer in all action. The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his...prayers heard throughout nature, though for cheap ends. — SELF-RELIANCE + Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the want of self-reliance:... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...will then see prayer in all action. The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...will then see prayer in all action. The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his...regrets. Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...will then see prayer in all action. The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his...regrets. Discontent is th"e want of self-reliance : it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer : if not, attend... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 pages
...will then see prayer in all action. The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his...regrets. Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...will then see prayer in all action. The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his...Audate, replies, — "His hidden meaning lies in our endeavours; Our valors are our best gods." Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent... | |
 | Philip Leroy Culbertson - 1992 - 188 pages
...pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft. . . . Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will. ... As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease... | |
 | George Kateb - 2002 - 278 pages
...to us to see "prayer in all action. The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his...prayers heard throughout nature, though for cheap ends" (p. 276). I here make use of this formulation, cited before, to suggest that any activity, any work,... | |
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It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action. The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with... 
