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... gives this farewell a place in his own latest volume of poems , adding thereto some memorial verses to this " brother of the brief but blazing star ; born for the noblest life ; the loving cham- pion of the right ; who never wronged the ...
... gives this farewell a place in his own latest volume of poems , adding thereto some memorial verses to this " brother of the brief but blazing star ; born for the noblest life ; the loving cham- pion of the right ; who never wronged the ...
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... give more accurately the rules of grammar and accidence . But we are told that " in philosophy he did very poorly , and mathematics were his ut- ter despair . " In certain other respects he stood well up in his class - ranking higher in ...
... give more accurately the rules of grammar and accidence . But we are told that " in philosophy he did very poorly , and mathematics were his ut- ter despair . " In certain other respects he stood well up in his class - ranking higher in ...
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... his disciples on that occasion ; but there is nothing said which indicates that the feast was hereafter to be com- memorated . Mark gives the same words , still Iwith no intimation that the occasion was to be remembered 30 EMERSON .
... his disciples on that occasion ; but there is nothing said which indicates that the feast was hereafter to be com- memorated . Mark gives the same words , still Iwith no intimation that the occasion was to be remembered 30 EMERSON .
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... give a new meaning in your eyes to the national festival , as the anni- versary of my death . " " And much more to the same general purport ; the upshot of all being that the supper was not a sequel to the Passover , but was the ...
... give a new meaning in your eyes to the national festival , as the anni- versary of my death . " " And much more to the same general purport ; the upshot of all being that the supper was not a sequel to the Passover , but was the ...
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... gives little weight to the author- ity of Paul . To us , who regard the authority of Paul as not inferior to any other , the argument of Emerson and the conclusions based upon it have no validity . Still , it is fitting that they should ...
... gives little weight to the author- ity of Paul . To us , who regard the authority of Paul as not inferior to any other , the argument of Emerson and the conclusions based upon it have no validity . Still , it is fitting that they should ...
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Page 323 - THE mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel ; And the former called the latter ' Little Prig '. Bun replied, ' You are doubtless very big ; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace 10 To occupy my place.
Page 121 - I call an ultimate end. 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 all-fair. Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.
Page 94 - THERE is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can understand. Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent.
Page 175 - Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Page 309 - If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.
Page 172 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.
Page 174 - Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine Providence has found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Page 159 - Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to prefer imperfect theories, and sentences, which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.
Page 100 - 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?
Page 118 - When the bark of Columbus nears the shore of America; — before it, the beach lined with savages, fleeing out of all their huts of cane; the sea behind; and the purple mountains of the Indian Archipelago around, can we separate the man from the living picture? Does not the New World clothe his form with her palm-groves and savannahs as fit drapery?