The American Scholar |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 60
Page 10
... beauty , philan- thropy , and religion , the highest facts of human ex- perience ; he must be common , but not vulgar , and , as a star , must dwell apart from the vulgarity of the sel- fish and low . He may win money without doing this ...
... beauty , philan- thropy , and religion , the highest facts of human ex- perience ; he must be common , but not vulgar , and , as a star , must dwell apart from the vulgarity of the sel- fish and low . He may win money without doing this ...
Page 16
... beauty ; but there is an in- telligent class of men who will hear a man if he has what is worth listening to and says it plain . It will be understood and appreciated , and soon reduced to practice . Let him think as much in advance of ...
... beauty ; but there is an in- telligent class of men who will hear a man if he has what is worth listening to and says it plain . It will be understood and appreciated , and soon reduced to practice . Let him think as much in advance of ...
Page 18
... beauty which flowers out all over the marvellous field of art where Shakespeare walked and sung . In the pulpit excel- lence was painted as a priest , or monk , or nun , loving nothing but God ; on the stage as a soldier , magistrate ...
... beauty which flowers out all over the marvellous field of art where Shakespeare walked and sung . In the pulpit excel- lence was painted as a priest , or monk , or nun , loving nothing but God ; on the stage as a soldier , magistrate ...
Page 19
... beauty of the form is not appreciated , but the original sub- stance welcomed into new life over the bench , the loom , and even the desk of the counting - house . Of a deep man the people ask clearness also , thinking he does not see a ...
... beauty of the form is not appreciated , but the original sub- stance welcomed into new life over the bench , the loom , and even the desk of the counting - house . Of a deep man the people ask clearness also , thinking he does not see a ...
Page 41
... beauty or instruct by their guidance , and still less inspire by any eminence of man- hood which they were born to or have won . They build on the surface - sand for to - day , not on the rock of ages for ever . With so little ...
... beauty or instruct by their guidance , and still less inspire by any eminence of man- hood which they were born to or have won . They build on the surface - sand for to - day , not on the rock of ages for ever . With so little ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
America appears beauty better Boston cause century Channing character Christian church Church of England civilization Cortés culture divine doctrines doughfaces Emerson eminent England English Europe fact Ferdinand and Isabella Follen freedom genius German German literature give Goethe heart Hegel Henry Ward Beecher historian honor human idea Indians institutions intellectual Isabella justice king labor land learned less literary literature live look Lord mankind Massachusetts matter ment Mexicans Mexico mind minister moral nation nature never noble Parker persons philosophy political preach Prescott progress pulpit Puritans race Ralph Waldo Emerson religion religious rich says scholar seems sermons servants slavery slaves soul Spain Spaniards speak speech spirit theology things thought thousand tion true truth ture volume wealth whole WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Wolfgang Menzel word write