Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Volume 5); With Annotations (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... the passage thus beginning in "The Over-Soul" ( Essays, First Series, pp. 293, 294). It was originally a part of a sermon preached by Mr. Emerson at East Lexington. extreme unfitness they suspect themselves. And all of us apologize when we ought not, and congratulate ourselves when we ought not.1 Plutarch fits me better than Southey or Scott, therefore I say, there is no age to good writing. Could I write as I would, I suppose the piece would be no nearer to Boston in 1839 than to Athens in the fiftieth Olympiad. Good thought, however expressed, saith to us, " Come out of time, come to me in the Eternal." We wish the man should show himself for what he is, though he be Iscariot. If the humour is in the blood, bring it out to the skin by all means. October 16. Friendship.--What needs greater magnanimity than the waiting for a friend, a lover, for years? We see the noble afar off."2... How sadly true all over human life is the saying, " To him that hath shall be given; from him that hath not shall be taken." Attentions are showered on the powerful, who needs them not. 1839 PLUTARCH. SLEEP. POEM 287 I This passage is followed by the greater part of the opening paragraph of Art (Essays, Second Series). z What follows is printed in "Friendship" (Essays, First Series, p. 212). Friends abound for the self-trusting, and he retreats to his cliff. Weather.--" If it be true that souls are naturally endued with the faculty of prediction, and that the chief cause that excites this faculty and virtue is a certain temperature of air and winds," etc.--Plutarch, De Oraculis. " Hermes played at dice with the moon and won of her the seventieth part of each of her revolutions with which he made five new days and added to the year that Osiris might be...