Essays, 第 1〜2 巻Houghton, Mifflin, 1903 - 613 ページ Essays: Second Series is a series of essays written by Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1844, concerning transcendentalism. It is the second volume of Emerson's Essays, the first being Essays: First Series. This book contains: "The Poet" "Experience" "Character" "Manners" "Gifts" "Nature" "Politics" "Nominalist and Realist" "New England Reformers" |
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... wish to expiate , but to live . My life is for itself and not for a spectacle . I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain , so it be genuine and equal , than that it should be glittering and unsteady . I wish it to be sound ...
... wish to expiate , but to live . My life is for itself and not for a spectacle . I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain , so it be genuine and equal , than that it should be glittering and unsteady . I wish it to be sound ...
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... wish that he should wish to please me . I will stand here for humanity , and though I would make it kind , I would make it true . Let us affront and reprimand the smooth me- diocrity and squalid contentment of the times , and hurl in ...
... wish that he should wish to please me . I will stand here for humanity , and though I would make it kind , I would make it true . Let us affront and reprimand the smooth me- diocrity and squalid contentment of the times , and hurl in ...
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... wish to meet a good I do not earn , for example to find a pot of buried gold , know- ing that it brings with it new burdens . I do not wish more external goods , neither posses- sions , nor honors , nor powers , nor persons . The gain ...
... wish to meet a good I do not earn , for example to find a pot of buried gold , know- ing that it brings with it new burdens . I do not wish more external goods , neither posses- sions , nor honors , nor powers , nor persons . The gain ...
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... wishes to conceal , his pupils will become as fully in- doctrinated into that as into any which he pub- lishes . If you pour water into a vessel twisted into coils and angles , it is vain to say , I will pour it only into this or that ...
... wishes to conceal , his pupils will become as fully in- doctrinated into that as into any which he pub- lishes . If you pour water into a vessel twisted into coils and angles , it is vain to say , I will pour it only into this or that ...
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... wish to be Epaminondas . I hold it more just to love the world of this hour than the world of his hour . Nor can you , if I am true , excite me to the least uneasiness by saying , ' He acted and thou sittest still . ' I see action to be ...
... wish to be Epaminondas . I hold it more just to love the world of this hour than the world of his hour . Nor can you , if I am true , excite me to the least uneasiness by saying , ' He acted and thou sittest still . ' I see action to be ...
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action Æschylus antinomianism appear beauty behold better Boston character church conversation Dæmon divine doctrine earth Emerson Epaminondas essay eternal experience expression eyes fact faith feel friendship genius gifts give hand heart heaven Heracleitus hour human individual intellect John Murray Forbes John Sterling Lectures and Biographical light live look man's manner ment mind moral natura naturans nature ness never NOMINALIST object Over-Soul party passage persons phrenology Plato Plotinus Plutarch Poems poet poetry politics Proclus prudence Pythagoras RALPH WALDO EMERSON relations religion Richard Garnett rience secret seems sense sentiment society Socrates Sophocles soul speak spirit stand stars symbol talent teach thee things thou thought tion true truth ture universal virtue whilst whole wisdom wise words write Xenophon young youth
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403 ページ - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
407 ページ - A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and th
391 ページ - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.
45 ページ - A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
57 ページ - In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity, yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color.1 Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
57 ページ - Why drag about this corpse of your memory lest you contradict somewhat you have stated in this or that public place ? Suppose you should contradict yourself ; what then?
46 ページ - 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.
53 ページ - It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after your own ; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
67 ページ - These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones ; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day.
341 ページ - He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets, — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity and reputation ; but he shuts the door of truth.