Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With Annotations, Volumen8Houghton Mifflin, 1912 |
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Página 575 - New mercies, each returning day, Hover around us while we pray; New perils past, new sins forgiven, New thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven.
Página 31 - you had not yet been banished from human nature: for in my memory is fixed, and now goes to my heart, the dear and kind, paternal image of you, when in the world, hour by hour, you taught me how man makes himself eternal; and whilst I live, beseems my tongue should show what gratitude I have for it.
Página 554 - On which it grew, or to be left alone To its own beauty. Many such there are, Fair ferns and flowers, and chiefly that tall fern, So stately, of the Queen Osmunda named ; Plant lovelier, in its own retired abode On Grasmere's beach, than Naiad by the side Of Grecian brook, or Lady of the Mere, Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.
Página 132 - It appeareth in our books, that in many cases the common law will control Acts of Parliament and adjudge them to be utterly void; for where an Act of Parliament is against common right and reason or repugnant or impossible to be performed, the common law will control it and adjudge it to be void.
Página 234 - And this filthy enactment was made in the nineteenth century, by people who could read and write. I will not obey it, by God.
Página 131 - Commentaries remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid, derive all their force, and all their validity, and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original...
Página 335 - From 1790 to 1820 there was not a book, a speech, a conversation, or a thought in the State.
Página 459 - If Minerva offered me a gift and an option, I would say, Give me continuity. I am tired of scraps. I do not wish to be a literary or intellectual chiffonier. Away with this Jew's rag-bag of ends and tufts of brocade, velvet, and cloth-of-gold, and let me spin some yards or miles of helpful twine; a clew to lead to one kingly truth; a cord to bind wholesome and belonging facts.
Página 143 - Rudely thou wrongest my dear heart's desire, In finding fault with her too portly pride : * The thing which I do most in her admire, Is of the world unworthy most...
Página 62 - I hearing get, who had but ears, And sight, who had but eyes before; I moments live, who lived but years, And truth discern, who knew but learning's lore.