 Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, — else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached, as the counteraction of the doctrine of love, when...  Emerson - Page 42by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...but truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached...me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, WJiim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation.... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1841 - 618 pages
...frightful doctrines ; in the same page, after bitterly sneering at the abolitionists, he tells us " that the doctrine of hatred must be preached, as the counteraction...the doctrine of love when that pules and whines," and again, " do not tell me, as a good man did to-day, of my obligation to put all poor men in good... | |
 | England - 1842 - 538 pages
...only such portions of it as take the former direction which are suited for public communication." " I shun father and mother, and wife and brother; when...on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope it is something better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation. Expect me not to show... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...but truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it — else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached...mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me. J would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope it is somewhat better than whim at last,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...but truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it — else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached...whines. I shun father and mother and wife and brother, wheu my genius calls me. I would write on the lintels of the doorpost, Whim. I hope, it is somewhat... | |
 | Ephraim Langdon Frothingham - 1864 - 520 pages
...this or that : the only right is what is after my constitution ; the only wrong what is against it. I shun father and mother and wife and brother when my genius calls me. I would write upon the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope it is something better than whim at last ; but we cannot... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 pages
...truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, — else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached...shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genins calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope it is somewhat better... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, — else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached...when that pules and whines. I shun father and mother mid wife and brother, when my genius calls me. I would write on ihe lintels of the door-post, Whim.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 pages
...love. Tour goodness must have some edge to it, — else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must he preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love...shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genins calls me. I would write on the lintels of the door-post, Whim. I hope it is somewhat better... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1883 - 356 pages
...truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, — else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached,...the lintels of the door-post, Whim• I hope it is somewhi't better than whim at last, but we cannot spend the day in explanation. Expect me not to show... | |
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