The Works of Theodore Parker: The American scholarAmerican Unitarian association, 1907 |
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... speak not of genius , the inborn faculty which costs mankind nothing , only of the education thereof , which the man obtains . The Irishman who can only handle his spade , wear his gar- ments , talk his wild brogue , and bid his beads ...
... speak not of genius , the inborn faculty which costs mankind nothing , only of the education thereof , which the man obtains . The Irishman who can only handle his spade , wear his gar- ments , talk his wild brogue , and bid his beads ...
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... Speaking is free , preach- ing is free , printing free . No administration in Amer- ica could put down a newspaper or suppress the dis- cussion of an unwelcome theme . The attempt would be folly and madness . There is no " tonnage and ...
... Speaking is free , preach- ing is free , printing free . No administration in Amer- ica could put down a newspaper or suppress the dis- cussion of an unwelcome theme . The attempt would be folly and madness . There is no " tonnage and ...
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... speak , to print his word and organize his thought . No class of men monopolize public attention or high place . He comes up to the Genius of America , and she asks : " What would you have , my little man ? " " More liberty , " lisps he ...
... speak , to print his word and organize his thought . No class of men monopolize public attention or high place . He comes up to the Genius of America , and she asks : " What would you have , my little man ? " " More liberty , " lisps he ...
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... speak it in plain speech , he is sure to be widely understood . There is no learned class to whom he may talk Latin or Sanscrit , and who will understand him if he write as ill as Immanuel Kant ; there is not a large class to buy costly ...
... speak it in plain speech , he is sure to be widely understood . There is no learned class to whom he may talk Latin or Sanscrit , and who will understand him if he write as ill as Immanuel Kant ; there is not a large class to buy costly ...
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... speaking with a religious and there- fore a universal aim , always presuppose a narrow au- dience of men of nice culture . So they drew their figures from the schoolmen from the Greek anthology , from heathen classics and the Christian ...
... speaking with a religious and there- fore a universal aim , always presuppose a narrow au- dience of men of nice culture . So they drew their figures from the schoolmen from the Greek anthology , from heathen classics and the Christian ...
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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 77 - OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. 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?
Page 418 - ... verum ubi plura nitent in carmine, non ego paucis offendar maculis, quas aut incuria fudit aut humana parum cavit natura.
Page 92 - These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned ; And the same power that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within.
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 59 - tis to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you; for ye are A beauty and a mystery, and create In us such love and reverence from afar, That fortune, fame, power, life, have named themselves a star.
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 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.