...Hereditary idleness had steadily done its work, and the scepter was already falling from nerveless hands. God said : "I am tired of kings ; I suffer them no more. ' ' And when the kings had slipped from their tottering thrones, as there was no one else to rule,...

...Hereditary idleness had steadily done its work, and the scepter was already falling from nerveless hands. God said: " I am tired of kings; I suffer them no more." And when the kings had slipped from their tottering thrones, as there was no one else to rule, the...

...Hereditary idleness had steadily done its work, and the scepter was already falling from nerveless hands. God said: " I am tired of kings; I suffer them no more. ' ' And when the kings had slipped from their tottering thrones, as there was no one else to rule,...

...out-do the brave, the true, And find a loftier way. BOSTON HYMN.* BEAD IN MUSIC HALL, JANUARY 1, 1863. THE word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims...Think ye I made this ball A field of havoc and war, 10 * On the 22d of September, President Lincoln issued his proclamation that slavery would be abolished...

...sailing of a hundred men and women in a wretched ship. It was the movement of the divine thought. " The word of the Lord by night To the watching Pilgrims...the seaside, And filled their hearts with flame." The vessel itself was a "poor, common-looking ship, hired by common charter-party for coined dollars...

...of Emerson other expressions of this cardinal principle of his philosophy. See pp. 72, 92. Page 6. The word of the Lord by night, To the watching Pilgrims came. "What brought the Pilgrims here? One man says, civil liberty ; another, the desire of founding a church...

...while romance and martyrdom were his lot, our Puritans planted here the germs of a grand republic. " God said, ' I am tired of kings, I suffer them no...my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor. I will divide my goods, Call in the wretch and slave ; None shall rule but the humble, And none but...

...the rights of the people. Once the king was God's anointed, as he still is in many lands. But when " God said,' I am tired of kings; I suffer them no more,"" the self-rule of the people acquired the same divine right—no less, no more, for the warrant rests...

...while romance and martyrdom were his lot, our Puritans planted here the germs of a grand republic. " God said, ' I am tired of kings, I suffer them no...my ear the morning brings The outrage of the poor. I will divide my goods, Call in the wretch and slave ; None shall rule but the humble, And none but...

...beak, those rapacious and wicked eyes, those cruel jaws." And it was of such times that Emerson wrote : God said, " I am tired of kings — I suffer them no more ; Up to my ears the morning brings The outrage of the poor." I have thus depicted, in brief, the condition of...