The Works of Theodore Parker: The American scholarAmerican Unitarian association, 1907 |
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... tell us this ? With the rare exceptions just hinted at , any man of a superior culture owes for it when obtained . Some- times the debt is obvious ; a farmer with small means and a large family sends the most hopeful of his sons to ...
... tell us this ? With the rare exceptions just hinted at , any man of a superior culture owes for it when obtained . Some- times the debt is obvious ; a farmer with small means and a large family sends the most hopeful of his sons to ...
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... tell us de- mands it , but solely because the Americans have in- vested some twelve hundred millions of dollars in the bodies and souls of their countrymen , and fear they shall lose their capital . Whitney's gin for separating the ...
... tell us de- mands it , but solely because the Americans have in- vested some twelve hundred millions of dollars in the bodies and souls of their countrymen , and fear they shall lose their capital . Whitney's gin for separating the ...
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... tell the pro- fessor of theology that he must teach " such doctrines as the merchants approve " or they will not give money to the college , and he , it , and the " cause of the Lord , " will all come to the ground at the same time and ...
... tell the pro- fessor of theology that he must teach " such doctrines as the merchants approve " or they will not give money to the college , and he , it , and the " cause of the Lord , " will all come to the ground at the same time and ...
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... is before the purse ; here the state is chiefly an accessory of the exchange , and our politics only mercantile . This appears sometimes against our will , in symbols not meant to tell the tale 26 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR.
... is before the purse ; here the state is chiefly an accessory of the exchange , and our politics only mercantile . This appears sometimes against our will , in symbols not meant to tell the tale 26 THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR.
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Theodore Parker. will , in symbols not meant to tell the tale . Thus in the House of Representatives in Massachusetts , a cod- fish stares the speaker in the face - not a very intel- lectual looking fish . When it was put there it was a ...
Theodore Parker. will , in symbols not meant to tell the tale . Thus in the House of Representatives in Massachusetts , a cod- fish stares the speaker in the face - not a very intel- lectual looking fish . When it was put there it was a ...
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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.