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Showing posts with label Ralph Waldo Emerson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ralph Waldo Emerson. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Theodore Parker, December 24, 1859

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ROME, December 24, 1839. What a stormy time you are having in America! Your cradle was rocked in the Revolution, and now in your old age y...
Saturday, May 25, 2024

Speech of Ralph Waldo Emerson,* Saturday Evening, November 18, 1859

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MR. CHAIRMAN AND FELLOW-CITIZENS: I share the sympathy and sorrow which have brought us together. Gentlemen who have preceded me have well s...
Sunday, May 5, 2024

Senator Charles Sumner to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, May 8, 1851

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I cannot repress my delight in what I hear of Emerson's utterance at Concord. For an hour and a half he laid bare our evils and their au...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Services for John Brown at Concord, Massachusetts, December 2, 1859

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The martyrdom of John Brown was most worthily celebrated at Concord, Massachusetts. The town which inaugurated the first American "Insu...
Saturday, September 30, 2023

M. E. S.* to John Brown, November 29, 1859

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MASSACHUSETTS, November 29. Dear Friend: I have written to you once before, but fear it has never reached you; and now I try again, trusti...
Saturday, May 27, 2023

Charles Sumner to George Sumner, February 18, 1850

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You will read the proceedings at Washington. The bluster of the South is, I think, subsiding, though as usual the North is frightened, and p...