 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...and miraculous. Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from...It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end, is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...miraculous. Prayer that craves a particular commodity — any thing less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from...It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end, is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...miraculous. Prayer that craves a particular commodity, — any thing less than all good, —is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from...It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft. It supposes dualism and not unity... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...and miraculous. Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from...It is the Spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end, is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism, and not... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...and miraculous. Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from...It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer, as a means to effect a private end, is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism, and not... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...miraculous. Prayer that craves a particular commodity — any thing less than all good is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from...It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end, is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...miraculous. Prayer that craves a particular commodity — any thing less than all good is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from...It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end, is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...miraculous. Prayer that craves a particular commodity, — any thing less than all good, — is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from...It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft. It supposes dualism and not unity... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...miraculous. Prayer that craves a particular commodity, — any thing less than all good, — is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from...It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is meanness and theft. It supposes dualism and not unity... | |
 | 1850 - 524 pages
...particular commodity, any thing less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of tlie facts of life from the highest point of view : it is the soliloquy of a beholding and a jubilant soul : it is the Spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer, as a means to effect... | |
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Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. 
