Word: emersons
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Moral and Intellectual Philosophy. - The Rev. John O. Means, D. D., R. W. Emerson, the Rev. Edwards A. Park, D. D., the Rev. Alexander McKenzie, Henry James, Professor George II. Howison, J. E. Cabot...
...ordinary citizen is not compelled, early in the morning, to "run and worship God" on week-days; nor on Sundays to "attend morning service and remain during the entire service," the World fails to see why we Harvard citizens should be obliged to do so. It blames particularly Emerson for "coming down from Concord to oppose a motion for the discontinuance of morning prayers," and James Freeman Clarke, "the liberal of the liberals," for "protesting against removing the requirement of attendance on public worship. Both these gentlemen," it continues, "are doubtless aware that however much a student is required...
...felt an interest. However excellent a thing Persian poetry may be in itself, it is not the prevailing topic of conversation in Cambridge. Apart from the discussion of Persian poetry the questions which this controversy has raised are questions of opinion in regard to the relative merits of Mr. Emerson's earlier and later works. We can only say of Mr. Emerson, in the words of the contributor to our last number, that he is "a man who has grown gray in literature, not for selfish gratification, but for the welfare and happiness of the whole human family, . . . . whose name...
...writer's views on Persian poetry force us to the painful conclusion that his acquaintance with the subject is limited, or that he is gifted with superhuman vision, which enables him to see beauties in an obscure poet invisible to Mr. Emerson's and other mortal eyes. In either case, a careful perusal of Firdansi, Kourroglou, Nizami, Saadi, or Dschami would dissipate his objections to Mr. Emerson's fancied slight...
...fellow-beings. A man who has grown gray in literature, not for selfish gratification, but for the welfare and happiness of the whole human family, is a hero whose name deserves to live unsullied and untarnished forever. Such a man, in the opinion of his countrymen, is Ralph Waldo Emerson...