 ... seen, and not, as in most men, an indurated heterogeneous fabric of many dates and of no settled character, in which the man is imprisoned. Then there can be enlargement, and the man of to-day scarcely recognizes the man of yesterday. And such should...  Essays - Page 125by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 371 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lela Knox Shanks - 1996 - 224 pages
...new life and a new world for ourselves and our loved one in spite of AD. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "We cannot let our angels go. We do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in."6 It is out of an accepting attitude that creative techniques are born. Careproviding presents... | |
 | Lee Rust Brown - 1997 - 306 pages
...Then there can be enlargement, and the man of today scarcely recognizes the man of yesterday. And such should be the outward biography of man in time, a...the divine expansion, this growth comes by shocks. ( CW 2:72) Readers of Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and George Santayana will recognize the... | |
 | Joel Porte (ed), Saundra Morris - 1999 - 304 pages
...(in the words of George Sebouhian), even the most tragic losses must become the source of wisdom.8 "We cannot part with our friends. We cannot let our angels go," Emerson later observed in "Compensation": We do not see that they only go out, that archangels may... | |
 | Lela Knox Shanks - 2005 - 220 pages
...new life and a new world for ourselves and our loved one in spite of AD. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "We cannot let our angels go. We do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in." 6 It is out of an accepting attitude that creative techniques are born. Careproviding presents us with... | |
 | William David Shaw, Professor W David Shaw - 2005 - 316 pages
...not taken or indulge a secret horror of concluding. 'We are idolators of the old,' as Emerson says. 'We cannot part with our friends. We cannot let our angels go' (1908c, 94). We are reluctant to admit that there are no birds this year in last year's nest. But instead... | |
 | 1841 - 768 pages
...in one case so heautiful, so savoring of real experience, vve must make. a considerable quotation. " We cannot part with our friends. We cannot let our...that they only go out, that archangels may come in. * * * The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which scorned nothing but privation, somewhat... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 798 pages
...to find out his meaning.1 THE COMPENSATIONS OF CALAMITY. We eannot part with our friends. We eannot let our angels go. We do not see that they only go out, that arehangels may eome in. We are idolaters of the old. We do not believe in the riehes of the soul, in... | |
 | 1948 - 396 pages
...poets, and gave Spenser a New Testament book of his own, and Blake a Revelation. When Emerson regretted, "We cannot part with our friends. We cannot let our angels go," he unconsciously explained the lasting appeal of Christianity. There has been little "foolish consistency"... | |
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