A Biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Set Forth as His Life EssayWilliam Harvey Miner Company, Incorporated, 1921 - 380 pages |
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... original in speech and spirit - at his highest only like unto himself . So we have to confine his genius to being the seer , not the systematizer , discursively in- tuitional , not massively architectonic . His inborn aloofness has ...
... original in speech and spirit - at his highest only like unto himself . So we have to confine his genius to being the seer , not the systematizer , discursively in- tuitional , not massively architectonic . His inborn aloofness has ...
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... original , intui- tional , unobstructed communion with the divine fountain - head . The variations upon this theme wind through his entire career and mark the stages of its development . And let it be added that such a message was most ...
... original , intui- tional , unobstructed communion with the divine fountain - head . The variations upon this theme wind through his entire career and mark the stages of its development . And let it be added that such a message was most ...
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... original seed - corn , till it finally bursts its bud into the full flower . A deeply negative germ lurks in Emerson quite from the beginning ; he was a born skeptic in certain di- rections , hence his youthful love of Montaigne , who ...
... original seed - corn , till it finally bursts its bud into the full flower . A deeply negative germ lurks in Emerson quite from the beginning ; he was a born skeptic in certain di- rections , hence his youthful love of Montaigne , who ...
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... original flower of his Genius . To use his own image , the God Terminus had called his limit . Thus Emerson has a deep ever - flowing undercur rent , not exactly of ancestral worship , but of an- cestral over - lordship , and perchance ...
... original flower of his Genius . To use his own image , the God Terminus had called his limit . Thus Emerson has a deep ever - flowing undercur rent , not exactly of ancestral worship , but of an- cestral over - lordship , and perchance ...
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... original strain , an elemental power of her own . She even wrote the boys ' prayers , and these " still sound in my ear with their prophetic and apocalyptic ejaculations , " con- fessed the prophet Emerson many years later . And the ...
... original strain , an elemental power of her own . She even wrote the boys ' prayers , and these " still sound in my ear with their prophetic and apocalyptic ejaculations , " con- fessed the prophet Emerson many years later . And the ...
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Page 218 - Our logrolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes, and Indians, our boats, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues, and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon, and Texas, are yet unsung. Yet America is a poem in our eyes ; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
Page 197 - ... the heart which abandons itself to the Supreme Mind finds itself related to all its works, and will travel a royal road to particular knowledges and powers.
Page 364 - We shall not again disparage America, now that we have seen what men it will bear.
Page 352 - that new saint, than whom none purer or more brave was ever led by love of men into conflict and death — the new saint awaiting his martyrdom, and who, if he shall suffer, will make the gallows glorious like the cross ;" and this sentiment was responded to with enthusiasm by the immense audience of Tremont Temple.
Page 159 - His experience inclines him to behold the procession of facts you call the world, as flowing perpetually outward from an invisible, unsounded centre in himself, centre alike of him and of them, and necessitating him to regard all things as having a subjective or relative existence, relative to that aforesaid Unknown Centre of him.
Page 119 - ... their names, they would make in conversation no deep impression, none of a world-filling fame, — they would be remembered as sensible, well-read, earnest men, not more. Especially are they all deficient, all these four, — in different degrees, but all deficient, — in insight into religious truth. They have no idea of that species of moral truth which I call the first philosophy.
Page 154 - It is well known to most of my audience, that the Idealism of the present day acquired the name of Transcendental, from the use of that term by Immanuel Kant, of Konigsberg, who replied to the skeptical philosophy of Locke, which insisted that there was nothing in the intellect which was not previously in the experience of the senses, by showing that there was a very important class of ideas, or imperative forms, which did not come by experience...
Page 157 - that he need not consult the Germans, but if he wished at any time to know what the Transcendentalists believed, he might simply omit what in his own mind he added [to his simple perception] from the tradition, and the rest would be Transcendentalism.
Page 106 - ... everywhere incipient, in the very rock aping organized forms. Not a form so grotesque, so savage, nor so beautiful but is an expression of some property inherent in man the observer, — an occult relation between the very scorpions and man. I feel the centipede in me, — cayman, carp, eagle, and fox. I am moved by strange sympathies; I say continually
Page 313 - But the world-spirit is a good swimmer, and storms and waves cannot drown him He snaps his finger at laws : and so, throughout history, heaven seems to affect low and poor means. Through the years and the centuries, through evil agents, through toys and atoms, a great and beneficent tendency irresistibly streams.