Select Essays of Ralph Waldo EmersonAmerican Book Company, 1907 - 245 頁 |
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... spirit of his work so poetic , so vivid , so full of sudden flashing lights . The first of the seven pieces of his prose work here presented is called " An Oration , " but it is just as much an Essay as any of the others , which also ...
... spirit of his work so poetic , so vivid , so full of sudden flashing lights . The first of the seven pieces of his prose work here presented is called " An Oration , " but it is just as much an Essay as any of the others , which also ...
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... spirit . This was his mission in the world ; to wake people up with clear and forceful words , and to tell them something about them- selves and the world around them which would be to them like a new light in their minds , changing ...
... spirit . This was his mission in the world ; to wake people up with clear and forceful words , and to tell them something about them- selves and the world around them which would be to them like a new light in their minds , changing ...
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... spirit was always more than the senses , conduct more than enjoy- ment , duty more than pleasure , and life a serious affair of which a strict account must be given . His father was the Rev. William Emerson , minister of the First ...
... spirit was always more than the senses , conduct more than enjoy- ment , duty more than pleasure , and life a serious affair of which a strict account must be given . His father was the Rev. William Emerson , minister of the First ...
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... spirit . At that time the ministry seemed to offer the best field to a young man who was ambitious for spiritual ... spirits . Later in the 14 Essays of Emerson.
... spirit . At that time the ministry seemed to offer the best field to a young man who was ambitious for spiritual ... spirits . Later in the 14 Essays of Emerson.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry Van Dyke. pressed him in health and spirits . Later in the same year he came to the conviction that the Lord's Supper was not intended by Christ to be a permanent institu- tion . Following his passion for ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry Van Dyke. pressed him in health and spirits . Later in the same year he came to the conviction that the Lord's Supper was not intended by Christ to be a permanent institu- tion . Following his passion for ...
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第 72 頁 - 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.
第 66 頁 - There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance ; that imitation is suicide ; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion ; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
第 62 頁 - We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds.
第 70 頁 - But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live then from the devil.' No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is •what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.
第 88 頁 - We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state, but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and do lean and beg day and night continually.
第 78 頁 - A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his genius that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of man. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony; the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome...
第 69 頁 - Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
第 57 頁 - If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?
第 58 頁 - I ask not for the great, the remote, the romantic ; what is doing in Italy or Arabia; what is Greek art, or Provencal minstrelsy ; I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the "familiar, the low.