Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays Selected by the Department of Rhetoric and Journalism of the University of Michigan |
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Page 51
... follows of itself from such clear intense sight of the thing . And is not Shakespeare's morality , his valor , candor , tolerance , truthfulness , his whole victorious strength and greatness , which can tri- umph over such obstructions ...
... follows of itself from such clear intense sight of the thing . And is not Shakespeare's morality , his valor , candor , tolerance , truthfulness , his whole victorious strength and greatness , which can tri- umph over such obstructions ...
Page 74
... an age ; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design ; and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients . A man Cæsar is born , and for ages after we have a Roman 74 Ralph Waldo Emerson.
... an age ; requires infinite spaces and numbers and time fully to accomplish his design ; and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients . A man Cæsar is born , and for ages after we have a Roman 74 Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Page 83
... follow the truth it will bring us out safe at last . ” — But so may you give these friends pain . Yes , but I cannot sell my liberty and my power to save their sensibility . Besides , all persons have their moments of reason , when they ...
... follow the truth it will bring us out safe at last . ” — But so may you give these friends pain . Yes , but I cannot sell my liberty and my power to save their sensibility . Besides , all persons have their moments of reason , when they ...
Page 86
... follow with desire . Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it . We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him because he held on his way and scorned our disappro- bation . The gods love him ...
... follow with desire . Our love goes out to him and embraces him because he did not need it . We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him because he held on his way and scorned our disappro- bation . The gods love him ...
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... follow the past and the distant . The soul created the arts wherever they have flourished . It was in his own mind that the artist sought his model . It was an application of his own thought to the thing to be done and the conditions to ...
... follow the past and the distant . The soul created the arts wherever they have flourished . It was in his own mind that the artist sought his model . It was an application of his own thought to the thing to be done and the conditions to ...
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Page 2 - Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Page 72 - 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.
Page 123 - I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived...
Page 124 - ... because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise Designation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life...
Page 89 - Insist on yourself ; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation ; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him.
Page 64 - 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.
Page 140 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.
Page 67 - 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.
Page 65 - Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine Providence has found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.
Page 130 - Let us settle ourselves and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion and prejudice and tradition and delusion and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris and London, through New York and Boston and Concord, through church and state, through poetry and philosophy and religion, till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality, and say, This is, and no mistake...