EssaysJames Fraser, 1841 - 371 pages |
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... this Emerson is perhaps far less notable for what he has spoken or done , than for the many things he has not spoken and has forborne to do . With uncommon in- terest I have learned that this , and in such vi EDITOR'S PREFACE .
... this Emerson is perhaps far less notable for what he has spoken or done , than for the many things he has not spoken and has forborne to do . With uncommon in- terest I have learned that this , and in such vi EDITOR'S PREFACE .
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... less , to take offence at it . Whether this Emerson be a Pantheist , ' or what kind of Theist or Ist he may be , can perhaps as well remain undecided . If he prove a devout- minded , veritable , original man , this for the present will ...
... less , to take offence at it . Whether this Emerson be a Pantheist , ' or what kind of Theist or Ist he may be , can perhaps as well remain undecided . If he prove a devout- minded , veritable , original man , this for the present will ...
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... less than all his history . Without hurry , with- out rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion , which belongs to it , in appropriate events . But always the thought ...
... less than all his history . Without hurry , with- out rest , the human spirit goes forth from the beginning to embody every faculty , every thought , every emotion , which belongs to it , in appropriate events . But always the thought ...
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... less true to all romance of scepticism . time are all the details of that stately apologue . Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus , said the poets . Every man is a divinity in disguise , a god playing the fool . It seems as if heaven had ...
... less true to all romance of scepticism . time are all the details of that stately apologue . Apollo kept the flocks of Admetus , said the poets . Every man is a divinity in disguise , a god playing the fool . It seems as if heaven had ...
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... less strictly implicated . He is the compend of time : he is also the correlative of nature . The power of man consists in the mul- titude of his affinities , in the fact that his life is intertwined with the whole chain of organic and ...
... less strictly implicated . He is the compend of time : he is also the correlative of nature . The power of man consists in the mul- titude of his affinities , in the fact that his life is intertwined with the whole chain of organic and ...
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Page 43 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Page 54 - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Page 86 - Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky. The solstice he does not observe ; the equinox he knows as little ; and the whole bright calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind.
Page 57 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Page 63 - Kingdom and lordship, power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a small house and common day's work; but the things of life are the same to both; the sum total of both is the same. Why all this deference to Alfred and Scanderbeg and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue? As great a stake depends on your private act to-day as followed their public and renowned steps.
Page 69 - When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn.
Page 49 - ... interesting, silly, eloquent, troublesome. He cumbers himself never about consequences, about interests; he gives an independent, genuine verdict. You must court him; he does not court you. But the man is as it were clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now enter into his account. There is no Lethe for this.
Page 49 - The nonchalance of boys who are sure of a dinner, and would disdain as much as a lord to do or say aught to conciliate one, is the healthy attitude of human nature.
Page 45 - To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius.
Page 125 - ... seen, and not, as in most men, an indurated heterogeneous fabric of many dates and of no settled character, in which the man is imprisoned. Then there can be enlargement, and the man of to-day scarcely recognizes the man of yesterday. And such should be the outward biography of man in time, a putting off of dead circumstances day by day, as he renews his raiment day by day.