 We cannot part with our friends. We cannot let our angels go. We do not see that they only go out that archangels may come in. We are idolaters of the old. We do not believe in the riches of the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence. We do not...  Essays: First Series - Page 103by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Irene Clark Safford - 1920 - 268 pages
...him. "We will not believe," says Emerson, "that there is any force in today to rival or recreate the beautiful yesterday." "We linger in the ruins of the...shelter and organs nor believe that the spirit can feed, shelter, and nerve us again. We fancy that we cannot find again, aught so dear, so sweet, so grace236... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...idolaters of the Old. We do not believe in the riches of the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence. We do not believe there is any force in to-day to...that the spirit can feed, cover, and nerve us again. But we sit and weep in vain. The voice of the Almighty saith, "Up and onward for evermore!" We cannot... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 284 pages
...idolaters of the old. We do not believe in the riches ot the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence. We do not believe there is any force in today to rival...the spirit can feed, cover, and nerve us again. We can not again find aught so dear, so sweet, so graceful. But we sit and weep in vain.The voiceof the... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 252 pages
...idolaters of the old. We do not believe in the riches ot the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence. We do not believe there is any force in today to rival...the spirit can feed, cover, and nerve us again. We can not again find aught so dear, so sweet, so graceful. But we sitandweep in vain.The voiceof the... | |
 | Leonidas Warren Payne - 1917 - 734 pages
...idolaters of the old. We do not believe in the riches of the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence. We do not believe there is any force in to-day to...the ruins of the old tent where once we had bread 745 and shelter and organs, nor believe that the spirit can feed, cover, and nerve us again. We cannot... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...do not believe there is any force in o-day to rival or recreate that beautiful yesterday. We Inger in the ruins of the old tent where once we had bread nd shelter and organs, nor believe that the spirit can feed, over, and nerve us again. We cannot again... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 pages
...idolaters of the old. We do not believe in the riches of the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence. We do not believe there is any force in to-day to...we sit and weep in vain. The voice of the Almighty saith, 'Up and onward forevermore!' We cannot stay amid the ruins. Neither will we rely on the New;... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...idolaters of the old. We do not believe in the riches of the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence. We do not believe there is any force in to-day to...we sit and weep in vain. The voice of the Almighty saith, 'Up and onward for evermore!' We cannot stay amid the ruins. Neither will we rely on the new;... | |
 | Joel Myerson - 1997 - 310 pages
...biography and history: We are idolaters of the old. We do not believe in the omnipotence of the Soul: We do not believe there is any force in Today, to...yesterday. We linger in the ruins of the old tent where the Soul gave us bread &- shelter &- organs[;] we cannot trust its power anew to feed[,] to cover &-... | |
 | Joel Porte (ed), Saundra Morris - 1999 - 304 pages
...idolaters of the old. We do not believe in the riches of the soul, in its proper eternity and omnipresence. We do not believe there is any force in to-day to rival or re-create that beautiful yesterday. . . . And yet the compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long... | |
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