Word: emersons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Baptists famed for liberalism in theology: first among them is Manhattan's Harry Emerson Fosdick. Many have wondered why he called himself a Baptist at all. The answer seemed to be: because he was pastor of the Park Avenue Baptist Church...
...comment upon the suppression in Boston by a "smug" society of an early edition of "Leaves of Grass" Speaking of this society Mr. Morris has this to say: "They had probably understood nothing of the text but those passages which they alleged to be objectionable. Thus the guest of Emerson and Sanborn and the finest and purest men and women of Boston and Concord, the friend of Tennyson and Longfellow, and of Mrs. Gilchrist was found unclean by an anonymous group who were unqualified to receive the rich message he brought them...
...Fifteenth Century Voyages and Discoveries", Professor Merriman, Emerson...
...London of Dickens", Mr. Hersey, Emerson...
...Mysticism", Professor Hocking, Emerson...