George L. Stearns
GEORGE L. STEARNS WE do not know how to prize good men until they depart. High virtue has such an air of nature and necessity that to thank its possessor would be to praise the water for flowing or…
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Category X – Lectures and Biographical Sketches
Volume X, Lectures and Biographical Sketches, collects some of the most interesting examples of Emerson’s thought. His lecture on "Demonology," for example, warns against what he calls the "low curiosity" of the paranormal. "Education" is of great interest to teachers and the lecture has been used often by reformers in the field. The address entitled "Thoreau" was delivered at the funeral of Henry David Thoreau in May, 1862, and is the finest reminiscence we have of Emerson’s great friend.
Carlyle
CARLYLE. Hold with the Maker, not the Made, Sit with the Cause, or grim or glad. CARLYLE. THOMAS CARLYLE is an immense talker, as extraordinary in his conversation as in his writing,-I think even more so. He is not…
Henry David Thoreau (Eulogy)
THOREAU. A QUEEN rejoices in her peers, And wary Nature knows her own, By court and city, dale and down, And like a lover volunteers, And to her son will treasures more, And more to purpose, freely pour In one…
Samuel Hoar
SAMUEL HOAR. "Magno se Mice quisque tuetur: Victrix causa deis placuit sed victa Catoni." A year ago, how often did we meet Beneath these elms, once more in sober bloom, Thy tall, sad figure pacing down the street. And now…
Mary Moody Emerson
MARY MOODY EMERSON. The yesterday cloth never smile, To-day- goes drudging through the while, Yet in the name of Godhead, I The morrow front and can defy ; Though I am weak, yet God, when prayed, Cannot withhold his conquering…
Chardon Street Convention
THE CHARDON STREET CONVENTION. IN the month of November, 1840, a Convention of Friends of Universal Reform assembled in the Chardon Street Chapel in Boston, in obedience to a call in the newspapers, signed by a few individuals, inviting all…
Ezra Ripley, D. D.
EZRA RIPLEY, D. D. WE love the venerable house Our fathers built to God : In Heaven are kept their grateful vows, Their dust endears the sod. From humble tenements around Came up the pensive train And in the church…
Life and Letters in New England
HISTORIC NOTES OF LIFE AND LETTERS IN NEW ENGLAND. THE ancient manners were giving way. There grew a certain tenderness on the people, not before remarked. Children had been repressed and kept in the background ; now they were considered,…
Plutarch
PLUTARCH. The soul Shall have society of its own rank : Be great. be true, and all the Seipios, The Catos. the wise patriots of Rome, Shall Hoek to you and tarry by your side And comfort you with their…
The Scholar
THE SCHOLAR. For thought, and not praise, Thought is the wages For which I sell days, Will gladly sell ages And willing grow old, Deaf and dumb, blind and cold, Melting matter into dreams, Panoramas which I saw, And whatever…