The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Natural history of intellect, and other papersHoughton Mifflin, 1904 |
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Pagina 19
... character of what we esteemed final . So works the poor little blockhead manikin . He must arrange and dignify his shop or farm the best he can . At last he must be able to tell you it , or write it , translate it all clumsily enough ...
... character of what we esteemed final . So works the poor little blockhead manikin . He must arrange and dignify his shop or farm the best he can . At last he must be able to tell you it , or write it , translate it all clumsily enough ...
Pagina 30
... , but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character . The benefit to others is con- tingent and not contemplated by the doer . " 1 1 P The one thing not to be forgiven to intellec- tual 30 NATURAL HISTORY OF INTELLECT.
... , but to fulfil a high necessity of his proper character . The benefit to others is con- tingent and not contemplated by the doer . " 1 1 P The one thing not to be forgiven to intellec- tual 30 NATURAL HISTORY OF INTELLECT.
Pagina 31
... character . The temptation is to patronize Providence , to fall into the accepted ways of talking and acting of the good sort of people . Each has a certain aptitude for knowing or doing somewhat which , when it appears , is so adapted ...
... character . The temptation is to patronize Providence , to fall into the accepted ways of talking and acting of the good sort of people . Each has a certain aptitude for knowing or doing somewhat which , when it appears , is so adapted ...
Pagina 53
... to their farthest divergence . Characters and talents are complemental and suppletory . The world . stands by balanced antagonisms . The more the peculiarities are pressed , the better the result . The POWERS AND LAWS OF THOUGHT 53.
... to their farthest divergence . Characters and talents are complemental and suppletory . The world . stands by balanced antagonisms . The more the peculiarities are pressed , the better the result . The POWERS AND LAWS OF THOUGHT 53.
Pagina 54
... character act absurdly , but only absurdly as seen by others . For it is so in life . Nonsense will not keep its unreason if you come into the humorist's point of view , but unhappily we find it is fast becom- ing sense , and we must ...
... character act absurdly , but only absurdly as seen by others . For it is so in life . Nonsense will not keep its unreason if you come into the humorist's point of view , but unhappily we find it is fast becom- ing sense , and we must ...
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Pagina 258 - But to return to our own institute; besides these constant exercises at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
Pagina 267 - Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart: Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea: Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free, So didst thou travel on life's common way, In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Pagina 261 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Pagina 256 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Pagina 274 - Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad...
Pagina 256 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.
Pagina 284 - If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete, a certain mode of phraseology so consonant and congenial to the analogy and principles of its respective language, as to remain settled and unaltered ; this style is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance.
Pagina 189 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Pagina 262 - ... true eloquence I find to be none, but the serious and hearty love of truth: and that whose mind soever is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would speak, his words (by what I can express), like so many nimble and airy servitors, trip about him at command, and in well-ordered files, as he would wish, fall aptly into their own places.
Pagina 264 - ... or to devotion ; in summer as oft with the bird that first rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, or cause them to be read, till the attention be weary or memory have its full fraught : then with useful and generous labours preserving the body's health and hardiness...