MiscellaniesMacmillan, 1884 - 321 pages |
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Page xxiv
... cause . This is ever the test of the scholar whether he allows intellectual fastidious- ness to stand between him and the great issues of his time . Cannot the English , ' he cried out to Carlyle , ' leave cavilling at petty failures ...
... cause . This is ever the test of the scholar whether he allows intellectual fastidious- ness to stand between him and the great issues of his time . Cannot the English , ' he cried out to Carlyle , ' leave cavilling at petty failures ...
Page xxxvii
... cause , sat side by side . The still living merit of the oldest New England families , glowing yet after several generations , encountered the founders of families , fresh merit emerging and expanding the brows to a new breadth , and ...
... cause , sat side by side . The still living merit of the oldest New England families , glowing yet after several generations , encountered the founders of families , fresh merit emerging and expanding the brows to a new breadth , and ...
Page xxxviii
... caused men to apprehend that ' as the earth is not the centre of the Universe , so it is not the special scene or stage on which the drama of divine justice is played before the assembled angels of heaven . ' A temper of scrutiny and ...
... caused men to apprehend that ' as the earth is not the centre of the Universe , so it is not the special scene or stage on which the drama of divine justice is played before the assembled angels of heaven . ' A temper of scrutiny and ...
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... kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend . The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population . CHAPTER II . COMMODITY . WHOEVER Considers the final cause 8 NATURE .
... kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him who has just lost by death a dear friend . The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population . CHAPTER II . COMMODITY . WHOEVER Considers the final cause 8 NATURE .
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. CHAPTER II . COMMODITY . WHOEVER Considers the final cause of the world , will discern a multitude of uses that enter as parts into that result . They all admit of being thrown into one of the following classes ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson. CHAPTER II . COMMODITY . WHOEVER Considers the final cause of the world , will discern a multitude of uses that enter as parts into that result . They all admit of being thrown into one of the following classes ...
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Page lxi - Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. ; I become a transparent eye-ball ; I am nothing ; I see all ; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or particle of God.
Page 6 - Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous. The dawn is my Assyria; the sunset and moonrise my Paphos, and unimaginable realms of faerie; broad noon shall be my England of the senses and the understanding; the night shall be my Germany of mystic philosophy and...
Page 210 - What does he, therefore, but resolves to give over toiling, and to find himself out some factor to whose care and credit he may commit the whole managing of his religious affairs ; some divine of note and estimation that must be. To him he adheres, resigns the whole warehouse of his religion, with all the locks and keys, into his custody ; and indeed makes the very person of that man his religion ; esteems his associating with him a sufficient evidence and commendatory of his own piety.
Page 79 - We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe. The spirit of the American freeman is already suspected to be timid, imitative, tame. Public and private avarice make the air we breathe thick and fat. The scholar is decent, indolent, complaisant. See already the tragic consequence. The mind of this country, taught to aim at low objects, eats upon itself.
Page lxi - In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. 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.
Page lix - To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.
Page lvi - Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the NOT ME, that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, NATURE.
Page 11 - No reason can be asked or given why the soul seeks beauty. Beauty, in its largest and profoundest sense, is one expression for the universe. God is the allfair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All. But beauty in nature is not ultimate. It is the herald of inward and eternal beauty, and is not alone a solid and satisfactory good. It must stand as a part, and not as yet the last or highest expression of the final cause of Nature.
Page 56 - To the young mind every thing is individual, stands by itself. By and by, it finds how to join two things and see in them one nature; then three, then three thousand; and so, tyrannized over by its own unifying instinct, it goes on tying things together, diminishing anomalies, discovering roots running under ground whereby contrary and remote things cohere and flower out from one stem.
Page 12 - Every word which is used to express a moral or intellectual fact, if traced to its root, is found to be borrowed from some material appearance. Right means straight; wrong means twisted. Spirit primarily means wind; transgression, the crossing of a line; supercilious, the raising of the eyebrow.