Emerson at Home and AbroadTrübner & Company, 1883 - 309 страници |
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... University of Leiden . Translated from the Dutch by J. ESTLIN CARPENTER , M.A. " Few books of its size contain the result of so much wide thinking , able and laborious study , or enable the reader to gain a better bird's - eye view of ...
... University of Leiden . Translated from the Dutch by J. ESTLIN CARPENTER , M.A. " Few books of its size contain the result of so much wide thinking , able and laborious study , or enable the reader to gain a better bird's - eye view of ...
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... University of London . " We may recommend it as an extremely useful compendium of modern research into the scientific basis of music . There is no want of completeness . " - Pall Mall Gazette . " The book must be interesting to all ...
... University of London . " We may recommend it as an extremely useful compendium of modern research into the scientific basis of music . There is no want of completeness . " - Pall Mall Gazette . " The book must be interesting to all ...
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... University , was settled as minister of Concord church . Concord and its church were both founded by his ancestor and Emerson's ancestor , the Rev. Peter Bulkeley , an Oxonian of noble family , Rector of Odell , Bedfordshire , who had ...
... University , was settled as minister of Concord church . Concord and its church were both founded by his ancestor and Emerson's ancestor , the Rev. Peter Bulkeley , an Oxonian of noble family , Rector of Odell , Bedfordshire , who had ...
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... university was for the time transferred to Concord . In his address Emerson reviewed with just pride the history of his town . It was fortunate and favoured , he said , in having received so large an infusion of both of the most ...
... university was for the time transferred to Concord . In his address Emerson reviewed with just pride the history of his town . It was fortunate and favoured , he said , in having received so large an infusion of both of the most ...
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... University . Lately I walked from St. Saviour's to the old Emerson estate in the Borough , passing along Park Road to Sumner Street , and there found Emerson Place and Emerson Terrace , the quietest spot of that crowded region . All ...
... University . Lately I walked from St. Saviour's to the old Emerson estate in the Borough , passing along Park Road to Sumner Street , and there found Emerson Place and Emerson Terrace , the quietest spot of that crowded region . All ...
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Страница 98 - Then each applied to each that fatal knife, Deep questioning, which probes to endless dole. Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul When hot for certainties in this our life...
Страница 97 - Meek young men grow up in libraries believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.
Страница 127 - OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?
Страница 211 - I know not whether these ancestors of mine bethought themselves to repent and ask pardon of Heaven for their cruelties, or whether they are now groaning under the heavy consequences of them, in another state of being. At all events, I the present writer, as their representative, hereby take shame upon myself for their sakes, and pray that any curse incurred by them — as I have heard, and as the dreary and unprosperous condition of the race for many a long year back would argue to exist — may...
Страница 127 - Embosomed for a season in nature, whose floods of life stream around and through us, and invite us by the powers they supply, to action proportioned to nature, why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?
Страница 118 - ... behind nature, throughout nature, spirit is present; one and not compound it does not act upon us from without, that is, in space and time, but spiritually, or through ourselves: therefore, that spirit, that is, the Supreme Being, does not build up nature around us but puts it forth through us, as the life of the tree puts forth new branches and leaves through the pores of the old.
Страница 117 - A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings, The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.
Страница 304 - A few strong instincts and a few plain rules Among the herdsmen of the Alps, have wrought More for mankind at this unhappy day Than all the pride of intellect and thought...
Страница 133 - I look for the new Teacher that shall follow so far those shining laws that he shall see them come full circle ; shall see their rounding complete grace ; shall see the world to be the mirror of the soul ; * shall see the identity of the law of gravitation with purity of heart ; and shall show that the Ought, that Duty, is one thing with Science, with Beauty, and with Joy.
Страница 133 - I look for the hour when that supreme Beauty, which ravished the souls of those Eastern men, and chiefly of those Hebrews, and through their lips spoke oracles to all time, shall speak in the West also.