 In the woods is perpetual youth. Within these plantations of God, a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There...  Nature: Addresses, and Lectures - Page 17by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1862 - 914 pages
...popular, the main tenet of Anglo-American Pantheism. " Standing on the bare ground," says Emerson, " my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or particle of God." Disregarding... | |
 | Thomas Pearson - 1863 - 344 pages
...until seen with the shore or the ship." Man is at once the worshipper and the object of worship. " Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the...uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. — The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me. I am part or particle of God." Prayer,... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 pages
...a perennial VOL. X.— Critical Writings, 2. 14 festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods, we return to reason and faitL There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my... | |
 | Frederick Arnold - 1866 - 494 pages
...Emerson give us a conception of AngloAmerican Pantheism. " Standing on the bare ground," he writes, " my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or particle of God." Let, too,... | |
 | Benjamin Field - 1868 - 298 pages
...this view, God is not a being above man, but God is to be found in man. In the language of Emerson, " Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, all The whole result is self-assertion, self-adoration, or man-worship, involving the full denial of a... | |
 | Leopold Hartley Grindon - 1869 - 112 pages
...of God a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods...can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, which (leaving me my eyes) nature cannot repair. With the trees I am not alone and unacquainted : they... | |
 | Thomas Ballantyne - 1870 - 256 pages
...of God a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods...calamity (leaving me my eyes) which nature cannot repair. EMEBSON. IN adults, the pleasures of mere colours are very languid in comparison of their present aggregates... | |
 | Benjamin Field - 1870 - 354 pages
...this view, God is not a being above man, but God is to be found in man. In the language of Emerson, " Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the...uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me. I am part or particle of God." Religion is... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1873 - 614 pages
...of God a decorum and sanctity reign, a perennial festival is dressed, and the guest sees not how he should tire of them in a thousand years. In the woods...; there I feel that nothing can befall me in life which (leaving me my eyes) nature cannot repair. With the trees I am not alone and unacquainted; they... | |
 | rev Andrew Cameron - 1873 - 760 pages
...versal does not attract us till housed in the in-1 n , i Who heeds the waste abyss of possibility ? Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, all mere egotism vanishes. The currents of the universe being circulate through me, I am part or particle... | |
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