Concord DaysRoberts Brothers, 1872 - 276 pages |
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... person behind the pageantry , and write the diary of one's existence ? MY HOUSE . SATURDAY , 3 . Y My neighbors flatter me in telling me that I have one of the best placed and most picturesque houses in our town . I know very well the ...
... person behind the pageantry , and write the diary of one's existence ? MY HOUSE . SATURDAY , 3 . Y My neighbors flatter me in telling me that I have one of the best placed and most picturesque houses in our town . I know very well the ...
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... persons and neighbor- hoods familiar with current newspapers and those who are not . Very different from the times when a country boy must ride his miles after his Saturday's work to get some glimmering of what was passing in the great ...
... persons and neighbor- hoods familiar with current newspapers and those who are not . Very different from the times when a country boy must ride his miles after his Saturday's work to get some glimmering of what was passing in the great ...
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... persons , distinguished as are most of the speakers , are not insignificant , since these are not among the least of the influences secretly , if not openly , moulding the manners and institutions of a community in which the thoughts ...
... persons , distinguished as are most of the speakers , are not insignificant , since these are not among the least of the influences secretly , if not openly , moulding the manners and institutions of a community in which the thoughts ...
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Amos Bronson Alcott. persons whose names å moment's thought will suggest , opportunities would be given for that sympathetic communion of mind with mind in which all living instruction and influence consist . EMERSON . TUESDAY , 13 . E ...
Amos Bronson Alcott. persons whose names å moment's thought will suggest , opportunities would be given for that sympathetic communion of mind with mind in which all living instruction and influence consist . EMERSON . TUESDAY , 13 . E ...
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... persons in their privileged moments , he is heard as none others are . The more personal he is , the more prevailing , if not the more popular . ' Tis everything to have a true believer in the world , dealing with men and matters as if ...
... persons in their privileged moments , he is heard as none others are . The more personal he is , the more prevailing , if not the more popular . ' Tis everything to have a true believer in the world , dealing with men and matters as if ...
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Page 93 - But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
Page 94 - The woman then left her water-pot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a man which told me all things that ever I did : is not this the Christ?
Page 79 - And teach her fair steps tread our Earth ; Till that divine Idea, take a shrine Of crystal flesh, through which to shine ; Meet you her, my wishes, Bespeak her to my blisses, And be ye call'd, my absent kisses.
Page 93 - The woman answered, and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband ; 18 For thou hast had five husbands, and he whom thou now hast, is not thy husband : in that saidst thou truly.
Page 94 - The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ : when he is come he will tell us all things.
Page 54 - ... to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance.
Page 142 - And many a mystic thing, Which the divine embraces Of the dear Spouse of Spirits with them will bring, For which it is no shame That dull mortality must not know a name...
Page 82 - Life, that dares send A challenge to his end. And when it comes, say, "Welcome, friend !" Sydneian showers Of sweet discourse, whose powers Can crown old Winter's head with flowers.
Page 81 - Smiles, that can warm The blood, yet teach a charm, That chastity shall take no harm. Blushes, that bin The burnish of no sin, Nor flames of aught too hot within. Joys, that confess Virtue their mistress, And have no other head to dress.
Page 35 - ... quality of pear or plum Ascends as gladly in a single tree As in broad orchards resonant with bees; And every atom poises for itself, And for the whole. The gentle deities Showed me the lore of colors and of sounds, 60 The innumerable tenements of beauty, The miracle of generative force, Far-reaching concords of astronomy Felt in the plants and in the punctual birds ; Better, the linked purpose of the whole.