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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... Universe . Campbell . Justified books . Reputation . Adams's Eulogy on Monroe . Temperance . Silence ; Speech ; Poverty . Education . Coming Death . Who Knoweth ? Origin of Sunday Schools . Everyman's gauge . Miracles . Com- pensation ...
... Universe . Campbell . Justified books . Reputation . Adams's Eulogy on Monroe . Temperance . Silence ; Speech ; Poverty . Education . Coming Death . Who Knoweth ? Origin of Sunday Schools . Everyman's gauge . Miracles . Com- pensation ...
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... universe . Preach and practice . Visits to sick and dying ; fear of death . Sentences and quo- tations . Extempore Speaking . Letter to Aunt Mary : Montaigne ; wild vigour versus talking from memory . The closing year . Faith . Robert ...
... universe . Preach and practice . Visits to sick and dying ; fear of death . Sentences and quo- tations . Extempore Speaking . Letter to Aunt Mary : Montaigne ; wild vigour versus talking from memory . The closing year . Faith . Robert ...
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... Universe . Science ethical ; Design ; Astronomy , effect on religion . Crisis in Emerson's life ; to the mountains for help ; Medi- tations ; the stirring of thought ; inspiration of Nature . Sunday at the inn . The question of the ...
... Universe . Science ethical ; Design ; Astronomy , effect on religion . Crisis in Emerson's life ; to the mountains for help ; Medi- tations ; the stirring of thought ; inspiration of Nature . Sunday at the inn . The question of the ...
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... Universe of Good beings , are not thus easily put on and off , with the succession of insignificant opinions and the customs of high life . They are slowly formed by many sacrifices of self , by many vic- tories over the rebellion of ...
... Universe of Good beings , are not thus easily put on and off , with the succession of insignificant opinions and the customs of high life . They are slowly formed by many sacrifices of self , by many vic- tories over the rebellion of ...
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... universe such as it is , as they would not remark in it any virtues attached to certain numbers , nor any properties inherent in certain planets , nor fatalities in cer- tain times and revolutions of these , they would not be able to ...
... universe such as it is , as they would not remark in it any virtues attached to certain numbers , nor any properties inherent in certain planets , nor fatalities in cer- tain times and revolutions of these , they would not be able to ...
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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.