Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works

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he Funeral Services of

ddress at a Meeting

s of Culture." Addres

rvard University.-C

ee of LL.D. conferred

ity.-"T

. It is a rough piece of verse, but noble from beginning to end. One verse of it, beginnin

from ever

er good

as he is

shall he

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is labor

n pawn to

nal year

nbind the

are ye

people fro

heir rescu

Monthly," is more dithyrambic in its measure and of a more

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a moment after they were written, seemed as if th

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h replie

er Pieces." The general headings of these poems are as follows: May-Day.-The Adirondacs.-Occasional and Miscellaneous Pieces.-Nature and Life.-Elements.-Quatrains.-Translations.-Some of these poems, which were

d-crowned Spr

s volume will be found "Brahma," "Days," and othe

s Remarks at the Funeral Services for Abraham Lincoln, held in Concord, April 19, 1865, he dr

d wanting. There, by his courage, his justice, his even temper, his fertile counsel, his humanity, he stood a heroic figure in the centre of a heroic epoch. He is the true history of the American people in his time. Step by step he walked before them; s

religion in a very succinct and sufficiently "transcendental" way: intelligibly for those who wish to understand

of vegetation, of astronomy, as face to face in a glass; that the basis of duty, the order of society, the power of character, the wealth of culture, the perf

e in a meeting of creed-killer

the pure worship. Pure doctrine always bears fruit in pure benefits. It is only by good works, it is only on the basis of active duty, that

ainly not to the doctrine of Christianity.-If you are childish and exhibit your saint as a worker of wonders, a thaumaturgist, I a

ctive to compare the two orations written at the interval of a whole generation: one in 1837, at the age of thirty-four; the other in 1867, at the age o

s is itself an honorable testimony to the civilization which has given her a civil status new in history. Now that b

igence,-"All, one may say, in a high degree revolutionary, teaching natio

e of his funda

lture, as of characte

tim

ho see that spiritual

that thoughts

n, are laws of mind a

"Bad kings and governors help us, if only they are bad enough." Non tali auxilio, we exclaim, with a shudder of rem

as the "grand climacteric." In that year Harvard University conferred

, under the title "Terminus." This was the first time that Dr. Emerson recognized the fact that his father felt himself growing old. The thought, which must have been long shaping itself in the father's mind, had been so far from betraying itself that it was a shock to the s

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