Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 334 pages of information about Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 334 pages of information about Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

[Footnote 220:  Explain the meaning of this sentence.]

[Footnote 221:  You, or you, addressing different persons.]

[Footnote 222:  “The truth shall make you free.”—­John, viii. 32.]

[Footnote 223:  Antinomianism, the doctrine that the moral law is not binding under the gospel dispensation, faith alone being necessary to salvation.]

[Footnote 224:  “There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that—­to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.” 
        GEORGE ELIOT, Middlemarch, lxxvi.]

[Footnote 225:  Explain the use of it in these expressions.]

[Footnote 226:  Stoic, a disciple of the Greek philosopher Zeno, who taught that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy and grief, and should submit without complaint to the inevitable.]

[Footnote 227:  Word made flesh, see John, i. 14.]

[Footnote 228:  Healing to the nations, see Revelation, xxii. 2.]

[Footnote 229:  In what prayers do men allow themselves to indulge?]

[Footnote 230: 

    “Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire,
     Uttered or unexpressed,
     The motion of a hidden fire
     That trembles in the breast.” 
                    MONTGOMERY, What is Prayer?
]

[Footnote 231:  Caratach (Caractacus) is a historical character in Fletcher’s (1576-1625) tragedy of Bonduca(Boadicea).]

[Footnote 232:  Zoroaster, a Persian philosopher, founder of the ancient Persian religion.  He flourished long before the Christian era.]

[Footnote 233:  “Speak thou with us, and we will hear:  but let not God speak with us, lest we die.”—­Exodus, xx. 19.  Compare also the parallel passage in Deuteronomy, v. 25-27.]

[Footnote 234:  John Locke. (See note 18.)]

[Footnote 235:  Lavoisier (1743-1794), celebrated French chemical philosopher, discoverer of the composition of water.]

[Footnote 236:  James Hutton (1726-1797), great Scotch geologist, author of the Theory of the Earth.]

[Footnote 237:  Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), English philosopher, jurist, and legislative reformer.]

[Footnote 238:  Fourier (1772-1837), French socialist, founder of the system of Fourierism.]

[Footnote 239:  Calvinism, the doctrines of John Calvin (1509-1564).  French theologian and Protestant reformer.  A cardinal doctrine of Calvinism is predestination.]

[Footnote 240:  Quakerism, the doctrines of the Quakers or Friends, a society founded by George Fox (1624-1691).]

[Footnote 241:  Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772), Swedish theosophist, founder of the New Jerusalem Church.  He is taken by Emerson in his Representative Men as the type of the mystic, and is often mentioned in his other works.]

[Footnote 242:  “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”—­EMERSON, Art.]

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