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Essays, orations and lectures - Page 27
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 385 pages
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History, Self-reliance, Nature, Spiritual Laws, The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind^he same transcendent destin}- ; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards...
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Old South Leaflets

1902 - 510 pages
...Providence assigned them. Sir, the words are yours which I quote. You have told your people that they are now men, and must accept, in the highest mind, the same destiny, — that they are not minors and invalids in a protected corner, but guides, redeemers, and...
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Old South Leaflets: General series

1902 - 512 pages
...Providence assigned them. Sir, the words are yours which I quote. You have told your people that they are now men, and must accept, in the highest mind, the same destiny, — that they are not minors and invalids in a protected corner, but guides, redeemers, and...
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The South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 2

John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker - 1903 - 426 pages
...written, the greatest facts yet to be discovered. "God will not have his work made manifest by cowards." "Not pinched in a corner, not cowards fleeing before...let us advance and advance on Chaos and the dark." Many foolish people took Emerson's ideas and carried them to an extreme ; there were many broken wagons...
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A Selection from the Best English Essays Illustrative of the History of ...

Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 476 pages
...childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers,...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 478 pages
...genius of their age, betray- « ing their perception that the absolutely trustwor- • thy was seated at their heart, working through • their hands, predominating...highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not minors and invalids in a protected cor- «~Ti ner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but I guides,...
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The Works of Matthew Arnold, Volume 4

Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 404 pages
...themselves childlike to the genius of their age ; betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...And we are now men, and must accept in the highest spirit the same transcendent destiny ; and not pinched in a corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution,...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 pages
...childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers...
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The Metaphysical Magazine, Volumes 18-19

1905 - 778 pages
...confided themselves to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...effort, let us advance and advance on Chaos and the Dark.—Emerson. A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves a constant...
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Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders ..., Volume 20

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 460 pages
...hands, predominating in all their being. And we are now men, and must accept in the highest spirit the same transcendent destiny; and not pinched in...let us advance and advance on chaos and the dark!" These lofty sentences of Emerson, and a hundred others of like strain, I never have lost out of my...
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