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... interest of mankind , but only for a class ; instead of eminent wisdom , justice , piety , they have eminent cunning , selfishness and want of faith . These charges are matters of allegation , judge you if they be not also matters of ...
... interest of mankind , but only for a class ; instead of eminent wisdom , justice , piety , they have eminent cunning , selfishness and want of faith . These charges are matters of allegation , judge you if they be not also matters of ...
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... interest of mankind . This is perfectly well known ; but no politi- cian or minister , bribed to silence or to speech , ever loses his respectability because he is bought by re- spectable men , -if he get his pay . In all countries but ...
... interest of mankind . This is perfectly well known ; but no politi- cian or minister , bribed to silence or to speech , ever loses his respectability because he is bought by re- spectable men , -if he get his pay . In all countries but ...
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... interests are balanced , and the welfare of each harmonizes with that of all , which is sought ; but the " greatest good of the great- est number , " that is , only a privilege had at the cost of the smaller number . Here is little ...
... interests are balanced , and the welfare of each harmonizes with that of all , which is sought ; but the " greatest good of the great- est number , " that is , only a privilege had at the cost of the smaller number . Here is little ...
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... interests of a party , but always in the interest of man- kind , and will represent the justice of God in the forum of the world . This literature , like the other , fails of the high end of writing and of speech ; with more vigor ...
... interests of a party , but always in the interest of man- kind , and will represent the justice of God in the forum of the world . This literature , like the other , fails of the high end of writing and of speech ; with more vigor ...
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... mean philanthropy , the celestial democracy , not the satanic ; writes with a sense of justice and in the interest of men ; writes to tell a nation's purpose in its deeds , and so reveal the universal law THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR 47.
... mean philanthropy , the celestial democracy , not the satanic ; writes with a sense of justice and in the interest of men ; writes to tell a nation's purpose in its deeds , and so reveal the universal law THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR 47.
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Page 159 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Page 71 - Standing on the bare ground — my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.
Page 92 - Out from the heart of nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old ; The litanies of nations came, Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, — The canticles of love and woe...
Page 94 - Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.
Page 414 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his...
Page 86 - Kingdom and lordship, power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a small house and common day's work; but the things of life are the same to both; the sum total of both is the same. Why all this deference to Alfred and Scanderbeg and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue? As great a stake depends on your private act to-day as followed their public and renowned steps.
Page 77 - The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
Page 85 - Every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine. We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of it; he may creep into a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution. In proportion to the energy of his thought and will, he takes up the world into himself....
Page 71 - In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth.
Page 71 - To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars.