Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With Annotations, Volume 2Designed by Bruce Rogers. 1. 1820-1824 -- 2. 1824-1832 -- 3. 1833-1835 -- 4. 1836-1838 -- 5. 1838-1841 -- 6. 1841-1844 -- 7. 1845-1848 -- 8. 1849-1855 -- 9. 1856-1863 -- 10. 1864-1876. |
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... believe , to those who have heard of the gospel- of what reason was that astonishing apparatus given ? Did not Christian- ity - even as much as the good Ware allows ( which seems to leave more difficulties , though not so frightful as ...
... believe , to those who have heard of the gospel- of what reason was that astonishing apparatus given ? Did not Christian- ity - even as much as the good Ware allows ( which seems to leave more difficulties , though not so frightful as ...
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... believe that because it has lain so tranquil , great argument could not make it stir . I will not be- lieve because I cannot unite dignity , as many can , to folly , that I am not born to fill the eye of great expectation , to speak ...
... believe that because it has lain so tranquil , great argument could not make it stir . I will not be- lieve because I cannot unite dignity , as many can , to folly , that I am not born to fill the eye of great expectation , to speak ...
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... believe in God , that the Sadducee is solitary in his cheerless creed . In the excess , as it seems to me , of the same faith , we find human faces in the clouds , hear human voices in the roaring of the storms , and shake at spectres ...
... believe in God , that the Sadducee is solitary in his cheerless creed . In the excess , as it seems to me , of the same faith , we find human faces in the clouds , hear human voices in the roaring of the storms , and shake at spectres ...
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... believe he must have admirers , but I have not seen any . The Sab- bath after it came out , Dr. Channing delivered a discourse obviously founded upon it . And , as to his sect , you know they exult in the in- dependent testimony of poor ...
... believe he must have admirers , but I have not seen any . The Sab- bath after it came out , Dr. Channing delivered a discourse obviously founded upon it . And , as to his sect , you know they exult in the in- dependent testimony of poor ...
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... believe . I need observe that ' tis no result of accumulated inquiry that has brought into doubt the faithfulness of the senses ; for , in Plato's Phadon , Socrates mentions that the poets sing that " we neither see nor hear truly ...
... believe . I need observe that ' tis no result of accumulated inquiry that has brought into doubt the faithfulness of the senses ; for , in Plato's Phadon , Socrates mentions that the poets sing that " we neither see nor hear truly ...
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Page 259 - In every joy that crowns my days, In every pain I bear, My heart shall find delight in praise, Or seek relief in prayer.
Page 57 - Dim as the borrow'd beams of moon and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travellers, Is reason to the soul: and as on high, Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here; so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere; So pale grows reason at religion's sight; So dies, and so dissolves in supernatural light.
Page 246 - To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel. My griefs cry louder than advertisement.
Page 49 - But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood: neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.
Page 288 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 174 - So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can...
Page 347 - Knowing the heart of man is set to be The centre of this world, about the which These revolutions of disturbances Still roll ; where all the aspects of misery Predominate ; whose strong effects are such As he must bear, being powerless to redress...
Page 428 - King's regard, Can give a bliss o'ermatching thine, A rustic Bard. " To give my counsels all in one, Thy tuneful flame still careful fan ; Preserve the dignity of Man, With soul erect ; And trust, the Universal Plan Will all protect. "And wear thou this...
Page 412 - Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se quam quod ridiculos homines facit. "Exeat...
Page 349 - Every one of my writings has been furnished to me by a thousand different persons, a thousand things : wise and foolish have brought me, without suspecting it, the offering of their thoughts, faculties, and experience. My work is an aggregation of beings taken from the whole of Nature ; it bears the name of Goethe.