Questions

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identifier	question
16931	If I see nothing to admire in a unit, shall I admire a million units?
16931	5,"Have you lately heard how any present rich man, here or elsewhere, got his estate?"
16931	6,"Do you know of a fellow- citizen... who has lately committed an error proper for us to be warned against and avoid?"
16931	But have not all prophets and ethical teachers had something of this aspect to their conservative contemporaries?
16931	How is it people manage to live on, so aimless as they are?
16931	If he were alive to- day, would he not be bewildered by much of our talk about the rights of men and animals?
16931	Shall we face them with Washington''s courage, wisdom, and success?
16931	To this ancient pessimism Emerson makes answer with a hard question--"We grant that human life is mean, but how did we find out that it was mean?"
16931	Whence came this social wisdom?
16931	Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses and places of amusement?
16931	Why needs any man be rich?
16931	and again,"Do you love truth for truth''s sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find it, receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?"
19935	Am I not too protected a person?
19935	Are we to look for the sources of his thought in Kant or Jacobi, in Fichte or Schelling?
19935	But what would those two divinities of his, Plato and Socrates, have said of a man who''could not give an account of himself if challenged''?
19935	But who shall say that he discovers that''spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling,''which a great poet has made the fundamental element of poetry?
19935	How does he stand towards Parmenides and Zeno, the Egotheism of the Sufis, or the position of the Megareans?
19935	Is not this to make men forget that not forms but duties-- not names but righteousness and love-- are enjoined?''
19935	Is not this to make vain the gift of God?
19935	Is there not a wide disparity between the lot of me and the lot of thee, my poor brother, my poor sister?''
19935	Shall we put him on the shelf with the Stoics or the Mystics, with Quietist, Pantheist, Determinist?
19935	Was he the prince of Transcendentalists, or the prince of Idealists?
19935	Was not that too, like the Communion Service, a form that tended to deaden the spirit?
19935	Why should professional labour and that of the counting- house be paid so disproportionately to the labour of the porter and the woodsawer?
19935	Why should we be awed by the name of Action?
13088	Fear Death? 13088 For whom is it in the last analysis that you legislate?
13088	Is it even so?
13088	Is it not so much death?
13088	Is that music, after all,one may ask,"which leaves so much to the performer, and is that poetry, after all, which leaves so much to the reader?"
13088	Say not so,Cried I when I again could find my breath, For I had seen the whiteness of his face,"How shall I come if thee it frighteneth?"
13088	Thou dost not seek to know What spirits are these thou seest?
13088	Thou who dost honor science and love art, Pray who are these, whose potent dignity Doth eminently set them thus apart?
13088	To what end is all this beneficence, all this conscience, all this theory?
13088	And how dare any one, if he could, pluck away the coulisses, stage effects and ceremonies by which they live?
13088	And what kind of a man was Stevenson?
13088	Do the thoughts and phrases which float about in it have a meaning which bears any relation to the meaning they bear in the language of thinkers?
13088	Does all the patriotic talk, the talk about the United States and its future, have any significance as patriotism?
13088	Does any one believe that the passion of the American people for learning and for antiquity is a slight and accidental thing?
13088	Does any one believe that the taste for imitation old furniture is a pose?
13088	Does it not tend to close the avenues between the soul and the universe?
13088	Does it poetically represent the state of feeling of any class of American citizens towards their country?
13088	For what is so useful, so educational, so inspiring, to a timid and conservative man, as to do something inconsistent and regrettable?
13088	He himself regards his work as a toy; and how can we do otherwise?
13088	Here is Alcott by my door,--yet is the union more profound?
13088	His own words give us a picture of him during that ride:--"What said my man when my betossed soul Did not attend him as we rode?"
13088	His prologue and overture are excellent, but where is the argument?
13088	In the succeeding verses we are lapped into a charming reverie, and then at the end suddenly jolted by the question,"What is it all about?"
13088	Is it a wonder that this man was venerated with an almost superstitious regard in Italy, and in the sixteenth century?
13088	Is it individualism of any statable kind?
13088	Or would you find the nearest equivalent to this emotion in the breast of the educated tramp of France, or Germany, or England?
13088	The traveller as he passeth through these deserts asketh of her''who builded them?''
13088	Their natures were electrically repellent, but from which did the greater force radiate?
13088	This perpetual splitting up of love into two species, one of which is condemned, but admitted to be useful-- is it not degrading?
13088	Thy false uncle-- Dost thou attend me?"
13088	What are these thoughts?"
13088	What difference does it make whether a man who can talk like this is following an argument or not?
13088	What is he that he should resist their will, and think or act for himself?
13088	What is natural asceticism but a lack of vigor?
13088	What is the one end which all means go to effect?
13088	What is the right use?
13088	What is there in these figures that they leave us so awestruck, that they seem so like the sound of trumpets blowing from a spiritual world?
13088	What matter if Æsop appear a little too much like an American citizen, so long as his points tell?
13088	Where is the substantial artistic content that shall feed our souls?
13088	Why is it that we refuse to judge him by his own utterances?
13088	_ How came he there_?
8641	Did not Hawthorne,I said,"predict something like this in an article in the''Atlantic Monthly''?"
8641	Do I?
8641	We know those who have reached the goal, but who can tell how many have fallen by the way?
8641	What do I think of Wasson?
8641	What hope is there for him,they said,"in such a profession?
8641	And in what way could he deliver this message?
8641	And who is that plainly dressed girl with the meekly determined look who goes back and forth so quietly and regularly?
8641	And why is it?
8641	Are the Rocky Mountains her monument; and shall the Falls of Niagara chant forever her requiem?"
8641	At another time he came to me and said,"What deep problems of government are you thinking over there all by yourself?"
8641	At the time of the Dred Scott decision, he exclaimed:"Is Liberty dead?
8641	But did he contribute one great thought or one grand and salutary imagination to the world''s stock?
8641	But how is he to persuade others to take an interest in these subjects?
8641	But is not this effort a virtue in itself?
8641	But why multiply these unpleasant examples of misrepresentation?
8641	Can the descendant of five generations of New England clergymen have the same blood in his veins that warmed the hearts of Marshal Ney and Mirabeau?
8641	Could a chief justice have decided the case better?
8641	Did he lay a noble emphasis upon any great truth or order of truths and so recommend it effectually to the attention and consideration of mankind?
8641	Did he realize the magnitude of the work before him-- one which thousands of patriotic men have since attempted and signally failed to accomplish?
8641	Did this man of heroic nature lack the courage to face tragedy?]
8641	Does he mean the spirit of the age?
8641	Does he partially expose here a peculiarity in his literary procedure?
8641	Does it so much as breathe upon them a salubrious air?
8641	Had Judge Story already discovered a centrifugal and uncontrollable element in the man?
8641	He walked out into the streets, and somebody said to him,''What think you of Athenian liberty?''
8641	How could he make known to others what was in his full heart, except from the pulpit?
8641	How could it be otherwise?
8641	How could it happen that Hawthorne deceived himself?
8641	How did these bare, bleak and barren rocks come to be inhabited?
8641	How did they get there?"
8641	How should this be, unless, indeed, the century as a whole is inferior, and prominence in it is no token of greatness?
8641	If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, what should be said of unripe and superficial thinking?
8641	If his friends did not agree with him he would reply with a mildly interrogative"Yes?"
8641	In fine, does his work serve to enlarge the souls, enlighten the minds, direct the wills or quicken and inspire the better powers of man?
8641	Is it not better for us to look at the matter in this way?
8641	Is it possible that he was in the right, and men like Emerson, Ripley, and James Freeman Clarke in the wrong?
8641	Is not all progress in this world accomplished as the frog escaped from the well, by jumping up three feet and falling back two?
8641	Is not the very crown of character that which we derive from failure, penitence, and self- reproach?
8641	Is the valley of the Mississippi her grave?
8641	It is not likely the boy is a genius, and who is going to purchase his pictures?"
8641	May not the career of any great man be compared to the course of a river?
8641	My wife seized me by the arm, half terrified, and said,''Wendell, what are you going to do?''
8641	Or did he even write a single sentence which one treasures up as an imperishable jewel?
8641	Perpetual constraint and self- denial may strengthen character, but will human nature be better for it in the end?
8641	Surely enough true civilization is and always has been an immediate necessity: a necessity like the feast of Tantalus: but how is it to be realized?
8641	Then she wrote on the paper:"Where is my father?"
8641	Was it an inherited public tendency from the spirit of intolerance which formerly persecuted the Quakers?
8641	Was there a strange fatality in the name, so that Patrick Henry might say with added force,"Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace"?
8641	Was this the summary and net result of their stroll in Walden woods?
8641	Wasson''s direct influence during his life was limited to a very small circle; but who can tell how far it extended indirectly beyond this?
8641	What answer can be made to such accusations?
8641	What but a future candidate for the senate of the United States, or even for the presidency?
8641	What does Emerson intend by trusting the time?
8641	What else can we expect of them?
8641	What good would a Webster''s dictionary have been at Harper''s Ferry?
8641	When it is a question of motive, of moral consciousness, how are such charges to be refuted?
8641	Who can doubt that this was a personal experience with him, as it has been with some others?
8641	Who can remember the like of it?
8641	Who indeed can explain it?
8641	Who, looking on these things, does not acknowledge that man is indeed fearfully as well as wonderfully made?
8641	Why does he consider Miss Fuller to have had a strong, coarse nature, and to have been morally unsound?
8641	Will you come?"
8641	With such an achievement at the age of twenty- six, what might not have been expected of his maturer years,--of the full fruition of his genius?
8641	and that Alcott answered,"Waldo, why are you not here?
3673	Do you think the porter and the cook have no experiences, no wonders for you? 3673 Is America a musical nation?"
3673	Is there any virtue in a man''s skin that you must touch it?
3673	3 What is character?
3673	A newspaper music column prints an incident( so how can we assume that it is not true?)
3673	A painter paints a sunset-- can he paint the setting sun?
3673	And if so, of what will it be composed?
3673	And then-- what is the soul?
3673	At such times, shall he not better turn to those greater souls, rather than to the external, the immediate, and the"Garish Day"?
3673	But is Plato a classic or towards the remote?
3673	But where is the bridge placed?--at the end of the road or only at the end of our vision?
3673	But where is the definite expression of late- spring against early- summer, of happiness against optimism?
3673	But where is the divine substance?
3673	But, indeed, is not enough manifestation already there?
3673	Can an inspiration come from a blank mind?
3673	Can it DO this?
3673	Can it be done by anything short of an act of mesmerism on the part of the composer or an act of kindness on the part of the listener?
3673	Can music do MORE than this?
3673	Can not some of the most valuable kinds of utility and inspiration come from humility in its highest and purest forms?
3673	Can you read him today?
3673	Carlyle would have Emerson teach by more definite signs, rather than interpret his revelations, or shall we say preach?
3673	Could the art of music, or the art of anything have a more profound reason for being than this?
3673	Could you journey, with equal benefit, if they were less so?
3673	Does the progress of intrinsic beauty or truth( we assume there is such a thing) have its exposures as well as its discoveries?
3673	Does the success of program music depend more upon the program than upon the music?
3673	For does he not say that"wherever a man goes, men will pursue him with their dirty institutions"?
3673	For does not Emerson tell them this when he says"What you are talks so loud, that I can not hear what you say"?
3673	He would have found that painful,"for was he not a part with her?"
3673	How far afield can music go and keep honest as well as reasonable or artistic?
3673	How far can the composer be held accountable?
3673	How many masterpieces have been prevented from blossoming in this way?
3673	If Emerson''s manner is not always beautiful in accordance with accepted standards, why not accept a few other standards?
3673	If Genius is the most indebted, how much does it owe to those who would, but do not easily ride with it?
3673	If it does, what is the use of the music, if it does not, what is the use of the program?
3673	If nature is not enthusiastic about explanation, why should Tschaikowsky be?
3673	If so what?
3673	If so why?
3673	If there is a weakness here is it the fault of substance or only of manner?
3673	In how far does it sustain the soul or the soul it?
3673	Intuitions( artistic or not?)
3673	Is Classicism a poor relation of time-- not of man?
3673	Is Emerson or the English climate to blame for this?
3673	Is a demagogue a friend of the people because he will lie to them to make them cry and raise false hopes?
3673	Is a thing classic or romantic because it is or is not passed by that biologic-- that indescribable stream- of- change going on in all life?
3673	Is his music American or African?
3673	Is it a matter limited only by the composer''s power of expressing what lies in his subjective or objective consciousness?
3673	Is it a part of the soul?
3673	Is it all a bridge?--or is there no bridge because there is no gulf?
3673	Is it not program- music raised to the nth power or rather reduced to the minus nth power?
3673	Is it not the courage-- the spiritual hopefulness in his humility that makes this story possible and true?
3673	Is it not this trait in his character that sets him above all creeds-- that gives him inspired belief in the common mind and soul?
3673	Is it the composer''s fault that man has only ten fingers?
3673	Is not our weak suggestion needed only for those content with their own hopelessness?
3673	Is not the asking that it be made more manifest forgetting that"we are not strong by our power to penetrate, but by our relatedness?"
3673	Is that a doctrine?
3673	Now all of these translucent axioms are true( are not axioms always true?
3673	On the other hand is not all music, program- music,--is not pure music, so called, representative in its essence?
3673	Or is it enough to let the matter rest on the pleasure mainly physical, of the tones, their color, succession, and relations, formal or informal?
3673	Or is it limited by any limitations of the composer?
3673	Ruskin also says:"Suppose I like the finite curves best, who shall say I''m right or wrong?
3673	Someone says:"Be specific-- what great fundamentals?"
3673	Something that will help answer Alton Locke''s question:"What has Emerson for the working- man?"
3673	The composer, the performer( if there be any), or those who have to listen?
3673	Then the world may ask"Can the one true national"this"or"that"be killed by its own discoverer?"
3673	Was man governing himself?
3673	What does it all mean?
3673	What is behind it all?
3673	What is the source of these instinctive feelings, these vague intuitions and introspective sensations?
3673	What part of substance is manner?
3673	What part of these supplements are opposites?
3673	What part of this duality is polarity?
3673	What will you substitute for the mountain lake, for his friend''s character, etc.?
3673	Whence cometh the wonder of a moment?
3673	Where is the line to be drawn between the expression of subjective and objective emotion?
3673	Who can be forever melancholy"with Aeolian music like this"?
3673	Who knows but this pulpit aroused the younger Emerson to the possibilities of intuitive reasoning in spiritual realms?
3673	Why must the scarecrow of the keyboard-- the tyrant in terms of the mechanism( be it Caruso or a Jew''s- harp) stare into every measure?
3673	Will more signs create a greater sympathy?
3673	Will you substitute anything?
3673	Would you have the indefinite paths ALWAYS supplemented by the shadow of the definite one of a first influence?
3673	Would you have the universal always supplemented by the shadow of the personal?
3673	Would you have the youthful enthusiasm of rebellion, which Emerson carried beyond his youth always supplemented by the shadow of experience?
3673	You may be near when his stern old aunt in the duty of her Puritan conscience asks him:"Have you made your peace with God"?
3673	and if so who and what is to determine the degree of its failure or success?
3673	design to establish a"course at Rome,"to raise the standard of American music,( or the standard of American composers-- which is it?)
8777	Can_ you_ tell us?
8777	How about Matthew Arnold?
8777	How did he look?
8777	Let me see,he replied;"is not he the man who was at the same university with Matthew Arnold, and who could tell us nothing of him?"
8777	Longfellow amused me by making two epigrams:--''What is autobiography?
8777	Longfellow, will you turn down my coat collar?
8777	Now,said the professor,"you do n''t mean to tell me that I have got to that yet?
8777	When I came home from my pleasant visit to your house last week( or was it a day or two before last week? 8777 Why ca n''t you stay?"
8777	Why, who did, then?
8777	Why,he exclaimed, with a most astonished air,"is that you?
8777	You did n''t?
8777	''But, Martin, are n''t you very tired?''
8777	''Why, how old is he?''
8777	----?''
8777	A few days afterward some one was heard to say,"Mr. Emerson, how did you like Professor----?"
8777	After a brief visit Longfellow was about to withdraw, when Janin detained him, saying:''What can I do for you in Paris?
8777	Again:"Will it be too late for a few paragraphs about Forcey the Willson?
8777	Am I right or wrong?"
8777	And again:"Have thee seen and heard the Hindoo Mohini?
8777	And again:-- How do you suppose that unskillful scholars are to live, if Fields should one day die?
8777	And can you tell me anything?
8777	And when?"
8777	And why?
8777	Any smell of violets in the distance?
8777	At each turn he regarded Longfellow, and at length came up, and taking his hand said:"''Is this Professor Longfellow?
8777	But how about this''Faust''?
8777	But the mystery of decadence, the long sunsetting, the loss of power-- what do they mean?
8777	Can you not burn down the Boston Athenaeum to- night?
8777	Could you contrive to print it on a fly- leaf, if I get it ready, and put a little sort of dedicatory poem at the end of it?
8777	Did artists ever before find such an eye and such an ear?
8777	Do you know anything about this pestilent manuscript she raves about?
8777	Do you?"
8777	Ever read his history of the''Ten Great Religions?''
8777	Genius?
8777	Has the French book on Spiritualism come yet?
8777	He felt a certain brotherhood with Robert Burns, and early loved his genius; but where were two more unlike?
8777	He wrote in 1877:--"When are you coming back from your Cottage on the Cliffs?
8777	Her daughter was told that when the President heard her name he seized her hand, saying,"Is this the little woman who made this great war?"
8777	How could he render again the knowledge of divine goodness and divine love which were revealed to him?
8777	How could it be otherwise, with such guests as he entertained, and with his own unflagging vivacity and his admirable social gifts?
8777	How could it know so much?"
8777	How did it seem to elbow thy way to the polls through throngs of men folk?"
8777	How did they draw their sweet, refreshing tint from the brown earth, or the limpid air, or the white light?
8777	How do you stand it?
8777	How is Pope?''
8777	How long he waited, or what thoughts were stirred by this first glimpse at the ceaseless procession of humanity, who can say?
8777	I smell spring afar off--sniff-- do you?
8777	If not, in what paper?
8777	In one of Longfellow''s notes he alludes humorously to the autograph nuisance:--"Do you know how to apply properly for autographs?
8777	Is it better?...
8777	Isaacs''?"
8777	It seems to me that is a little too early for Boston, is n''t it?
8777	MY DEAR MR. FIELDS,--_Can_ you tell me anything that will get this horrible old woman of the C---- California off from my shoulders?
8777	My dear, you are engaged and pledged in a year or two to encounter a similar fate, and do you wish to know how you shall feel?
8777	Of his grace of manner, what could be more expressive than the following notes of compliment and acknowledgment?
8777	One day the child looked earnestly at the long rows of books in the library, and at length said:--"Have you got''Jack the Giant- Killer''?"
8777	Shall you want it?
8777	She was one of those ladies of Edinburgh, he said,"who could turn to me, as she did, and say,''Whom would you like to meet?''
8777	Speaking of one of the young women who grew up under her eye, she often said:"What could I do in this world without Mine Burntssen?
8777	Talking of Victor Hugo and Lamartine,''Take them for all in all, which do you prefer?''
8777	Tea came, and the sun went down, and still he talked and questioned, and then, after a long silence, he said suddenly:"What''s he doing now?
8777	Was it Lucy Larcom?
8777	Was the fault mine?
8777	We ourselves are but poor slaves still in Italy: you feel for us; will you keep this gem as a slight recognition of what you have done?"
8777	What did he mean?
8777	What did the old Pilgrims mean by coming here?"
8777	What is the dear Doctor doing?
8777	What shall I do?
8777	What think you of the enclosed instead of the sad ending of''The Ship''?
8777	Whence came their color?
8777	Who besides the writer should comprehend every shade of meaning which made the cloud or sunshine of his poem?
8777	Who wrote''A Loyal Woman''s No?''
8777	Whom would you like to see?''
8777	Why could n''t we have been satisfied with the thing without making such a cackling over it?
8777	Why deny, then, that some men have it more directly and more visibly than others?"
8777	Why do n''t you make a book as big as Allibone''s out of your store of unparalleled personal recollections?
8777	Why had I found no words to express or even indicate the feeling that had choked me?
8777	Why should we not always do it when we write letters?
8777	Will there be anybody in town then?
8777	Will you do it yourself?"
8777	_ Are you quite as quick of hearing?_ Please to say that once again.
8777	_ Do n''t I use plain words, your Reverence?_ Yes, I often use a cane."
8777	_ How_ is she?
8777	_ What_ is she?
8777	_ Where_ is she?
8777	was asked immediately in the first pause, and"What did he say?"
8777	who is this?
12700	But when we come to inquire Whence is matter? 12700 Can he answer these questions?
12700	Canst thou by searching find out God? 12700 How can the man who has learned but one art procure all the conveniences of life honestly?
12700	Oh, what is Heaven but the fellowship Of minds that each can stand against the world By its own meek and incorruptible will?
12700	Physician art thou, one all eyes; Philosopher, a fingering slave, One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother''s grave?
12700	Scorn triflescomes from Aunt Mary Moody Emerson, and reappears in her nephew, Ralph Waldo.--"What right have you, Sir, to your virtue?
12700	Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? 12700 Shall we judge a country by the majority, or by the minority?
12700	What is the remedy? 12700 What?"
12700	Who has a part with**** at this next exhibition?
12700	Why call him_ the Post_?
12700	Why then goest thou as some Boswell or literary worshipper to this saint or to that? 12700 ''How long?'' 12700 ''What is this truth you seek? 12700 ''What will you do, then?'' 12700 ***** What was the errand on which he visited our earth,--the message with which he came commissioned from the Infinite source of all life? 12700 *****Let us then ponder his words:--''Wilt thou not ope thy heart to know What rainbows teach and sunsets show?
12700	--Of these three questions, What is matter?
12700	A hundred and forty?"
12700	A little while afterwards he asked of his fellow- traveller, Professor Thayer,"How much did I weigh?
12700	After reading what Emerson says about"the masses,"one is tempted to ask whether a philosopher can ever have"a constituency"and be elected to Congress?
12700	And how could prose go on all- fours more unmetrically than this?
12700	And what shall we do with Pope''s"Essay on Man,"which has furnished more familiar lines than"Paradise Lost"and"Paradise Regained"both together?
12700	And will you stop in England, and bring home the author of"Counterparts"with you?
12700	Are my friends bent on killing me with kindness?
12700	But what is the gift of a mourning ring to the bequest of a perpetual annuity?
12700	But what shall we say to the"Ars Poetica"of Horace?
12700	But what would youth be without its extravagances,--its preterpluperfect in the shape of adjectives, its unmeasured and unstinted admiration?
12700	Can any ear reconcile itself to the last of these three lines of Emerson''s?
12700	Can he dispose of them?
12700	Can we find any trace of this idea elsewhere?
12700	Can you help any soul_?
12700	Can you obtain what you wish?
12700	Can you see tendency in your life?
12700	Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?"
12700	Do all the women have bad noses and bad mouths?
12700	Does this sound wild and extravagant?
12700	Genius has given you the freedom of the universe, why then come within any walls?
12700	Have you eyes to find the five Which five hundred did survive?"
12700	Have you read Sampson Reed''s"Growth of the Mind"?
12700	How could the man in whose thought such a meteoric expression suddenly announced itself fail to recognize it as divine?
12700	How could they have got on together?
12700	How d''ye do?
12700	How d''ye do?
12700	Is it too late now?
12700	Is not the inaudible, inward laughter of Emerson more refreshing than the explosions of our noisiest humorists?
12700	Is not this to make vain the gift of God?
12700	Is not this to turn back the hand on the dial?"
12700	Is there method in your consciousness?
12700	Is virtue piecemeal?
12700	Is''t not like That devil- spider that devours her mate Scarce freed from her embraces?"
12700	One was tempted to ask:"What forlorn hope have you led?
12700	Or did----write the novels and send them to London, as I fancied when I read them?
12700	Shall we not bid him come, and be Poet and Teacher of a most scattered flock wanting a shepherd?
12700	Shall we rank Emerson among the great poets or not?
12700	The breeze says to us in its own language, How d''ye do?
12700	The clouds are rich and dark, the air serene,_ So like the soul of me, what if''t were me_?"
12700	The eye does not bring landscapes into the world on its retina,--why should the brain bring thoughts?
12700	The translations excited me much, and who can estimate the value of a good thought?
12700	The"Rhodora,"another brief poem, finds itself foreshadowed in the inquiry,"What is Beauty?"
12700	They seemed to me to betray the richest invention, so rich as almost to say, why draw any line since you can draw all?
12700	Transcendentalism has its occasional vagaries( what school has not?
12700	Was he thinking of his relations with Carlyle?
12700	We do not want his fragments to be made wholes,--if we did, what hand could be found equal to the task?
12700	What am I?
12700	What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being?
12700	What can promise more than an Essay by Emerson on"Immortality"?
12700	What do you?
12700	What does Rome know of rat and lizard?
12700	What great discovery have you made?
12700	What harm doth it?"
12700	What has Emerson to tell us of"Inspiration?"
12700	What heroic task of any kind have you performed?"
12700	What immortal book have you written?
12700	What is Beauty?
12700	What is a farm but a mute gospel?"
12700	What is the definite belief of Emerson as expressed in this discourse,--what does it mean?
12700	What is the use of going about and setting up a flag of negation?''"
12700	What is this beauty?''
12700	What is this"genial atmosphere"but the very spirit of Christianity?
12700	What man could speak more fitly, with more authority of"Character,"than Emerson?
12700	What man was he who would lay his hand familiarly upon his shoulder and call him Waldo?
12700	What would it avail to tell you anecdotes of a sweet and wonderful boy, such as we solace and sadden ourselves with at home every morning and evening?
12700	When we come to the application, in the same Essay, almost on the same page, what can we make of such discourse as this?
12700	Whence is it?
12700	Where then did Goethe find his lovers?
12700	Where to?
12700	Who can give better counsels on"Culture"than Emerson?
12700	Who is the owner?
12700	Why have you not told me that we thought alike?
12700	Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious?
12700	Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?
12700	Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?"
12700	Why should you renounce your right to traverse the starlit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn?
12700	Will no_ Angel_ body himself out of that; no stalwart Yankee_ man_, with color in the cheeks of him and a coat on his back?"
12700	Wordsworth''s"Ode"is a noble and beautiful dream; is it anything more?
12700	You are quite welcome to the lines"To the Rhodora;"but I think they need the superscription["Lines on being asked''Whence is the Flower?''"].
12700	_ New England Reformers_.--Would any one venture to guess how Emerson would treat this subject?
12700	and Whereto?
12700	and we have already taken our hats off and are answering it with our own How d''ye do?
12700	has my stove and pepper- pot a false bottom?
12700	or"Out of what great picture have these pieces been cut?"
12700	the old mystery remains, If I am I; thou, thou, or thou art I?"
13660	Dost know me, friend? 13660 Has not Mr. Carey paid you?"
13660	Old Fogeyand"Amiable Kuss"?
13660	Then has he not paid Carlyle directly?
13660	* A small hatchet- faced, gray- eyed, good- humored Inspector, who came with a Translated Lafontaine; and took his survey not without satisfaction?
13660	** Cromwell-- Cromwell?
13660	--------- And how many were"printed,"thinks Mr. Phillips?
13660	--------- Did you receive a Dumfries Newspaper with a criticism in it?
13660	---------- And poor Miss Fuller, was there any_ Life_ ever published of her?
13660	All people are in a sort of joy- dom over the new French Republic, which has descended suddenly( or shall we say,_ ascended_ alas?)
13660	And if so, I should say, Why not come at once, even as the Editor surmises?
13660	And who knows but I may come one day?
13660	And you ought to come and look at it, beyond doubt; and say to this land,"Old Mother, how are you getting on at all?"
13660	Are English of this day incapable of a great sentiment?
13660	Are you a physician, and will you come?
13660	Are you bound by your Arabian bounty to a largess whenever you think of your friend?
13660	But I hope you are to be at home tomorrow, for if I prosper, I shall come and beg a dinner with you,--is it not at five o''clock?
13660	But he is a good man, and, do you know it?
13660	But since you are all bounty and care for me, where are the new volumes of the Library Edition of Carlyle?
13660	But there is no more time in this late night-- and what need?
13660	But what can I?
13660	But what can be said?
13660	But what do I read in our Boston Newspapers twice in the last three days?
13660	But what had I, dear wise man, to tell you?
13660	By some refraction which new lenses or else steamships shall operate, shall I not yet one day see again the disk of benign Phosphorus?
13660	By the bye, do you know a"Massachusetts Historical Society,"and a James Bowdoin, seemingly of Boston?
13660	Can I ever forget, or think otherwise than lovingly of the man Emerson?
13660	Can you remember and tell me?
13660	Carlyle to Emerson Chelsea, 8 July, 1851 Dear Emerson,--Don''t you still remember very well that there is such a man?
13660	Clark( is not that the name?)
13660	Did you find kings and priests?
13660	Did you mean to show us that you could not be old, but immortally young?
13660	Do not I very well understand all that you say about"apathized moods,"& c.?
13660	Do you bethink you of Craigenputtock, and the still evening there?
13660	Do you know Beriah Green?
13660	Do you know Browning at all?
13660	Emerson to Carlyle* Concord, May[?
13660	Enough, enough; there will be all Eternity to rest in, as Arnauld said:"Why in such a fuss, little sir?"
13660	Ever yours, T. Carlyle We returned from Hampshire exactly a week ago; never passed six so totally idle weeks in our lives.--Better in health a little?
13660	For example, you must tell Mr. Thoreau( is that the exact name?
13660	For the years that remain, I suppose we must continue to grumble out some occasional utterance of that kind: what can we do, at this late stage?
13660	From Mr. Everett I learn that your Boston Lectures have been attended with renown enough: when are the Lectures themselves to get to print?
13660	Had I kept silence so very long?
13660	Hammond l''Estrange says,"Who ever heard of a stammering man that was a fool?"
13660	Has your head grown grayish?
13660	Have I not a Friend, and Friends, though they too are in sorrow?
13660	Have you a physician that can?
13660	Have you got proper_ spectacles_ for your eyes?
13660	He is abstruse, but worth knowing.--And what of the_ Discourse on England_ by a certain man?
13660	He was even a little stern on his nearest relatives when they came to him: Do I need your help to die?
13660	How can you explain men to Apes by the Dead Sea?
13660	How shall Queen Victoria read this?
13660	I fear you wo n''t see Brigham Young, however?
13660	I know not what your engagements are; but I say to myself, Why not come at once, and rest a little from your sea- changes, before going farther?
13660	I shall think there, a fortnight might bring you from London to Walden Pond.--Life wears on, and do you say the gray hairs appear?
13660	In fact I felt punished;--and who knows, if the case were seen into, whether I deserve it?
13660	In short, I am willing, I am willing; and so let us not waste another drop of ink on it at present!--On the whole, are not you a strange fellow?
13660	Is Frederic recreated?
13660	Is Frederic the Great?
13660	Is it likely we shall meet in"Oregon,"think you?
13660	Is not Henry James in London?
13660	Is not this the most illustrious of all"ages"; making progress of the species at a grand rate indeed?
13660	It is said: here, that you work upon Frederick the Great??
13660	It is said: here, that you work upon Frederick the Great??
13660	Macaulay''s_ History_ is also out, running through the fourth edition: did I tell you last time that I had read it,--with wonder and amazement?
13660	Meanwhile, patience; for us there is nothing else appointed.--Tell me, however, what has become of your Book on England?
13660	Never dream of such a thing nay, whom_ did_ you send?
13660	Now please to read these things to the wise and kind ears of Jane Carlyle, and ask her if I have done wrong in giving my friend a letter to her?
13660	Or is the case already irremediable?
13660	Or possibly I do the poor man wrong by misremembrance?
13660	Regrets for old days.--Not left town.--A new top story.--Miss Bacon, her Quixotic enterprise.--Clough.--Thackeray.--To Concord?
13660	Shall I believe you, this time?
13660	Tell me what is become of_ Frederic,_ for whose appearance I have watched every week for months?
13660	The common impious vulgar of this earth, what has it to do with my life or me?
13660	The man looks brilliant and noble to me; but how_ love_ him, or the sad wreck he lived and worked in?
13660	This is the fact: what more can I say?
13660	This war has been conducted over the heads of all the actors in it; and the foolish terrors,"What shall we do with the negro?"
13660	To which the Mother will answer,"Thankee, young son, and you?"
13660	Very well: could I help it?
13660	Was I not once promised a visit?
13660	Watchman, what sayest thou, then?
13660	What are you doing?
13660	What can I tell you better?
13660	What do I care for his fame?
13660	What have we to do with old age?
13660	What news of Naseby and Worcester?
13660	What to tell you of my coop and byre?
13660	What would I not give for a head of Shakespeare by the same artist?
13660	What, you scorn all this?
13660	When shall I show him to you?
13660	Where all writing is such a caricature of the subject, what signifies whether the form is a little more or less ornate and luxurious?
13660	Who can say what he yet is and will be to me?
13660	Who is he that can trust himself in the fray?
13660	Who knows but I may have adventures-- I who had never one, as I have just had occasion to write to Mrs. Howitt, who inquired what mine were?
13660	Why should I plague poor Clark with them, if it be any plague to him?
13660	Why should I regret that I see you not, when you are forced thus intimately to discover yourself beyond the intimacy of conversation?
13660	Will this do?
13660	Will you come in Winter then, next Winter,--or when?
13660	Will your next Letter tell us the_ when?_ O my Friend!
13660	You are sending me a book, and Chapman''s Homer it is?
13660	You promise us a new Book soon?
13660	You remember Charles Buller, to whom I brought you over that night at the Barings''in Stanhope Street?
13660	You say not a word of your own affairs: I have vaguely been taught to look for some Book shortly;--what of it?
13660	_ Ach Gott!_ Is not Anarchy, and parliamentary eloquence instead of work, continued for half a century everywhere, a beautiful piece of business?
13660	_ Altum Silentium,_ what else can I reply to it at present?
13660	and having kept us all murmuring at your satires and sharp homilies, will now melt us with this manly and heart- warming embrace?
13660	and how the poor?
13660	how the Colleges?
13660	how the Lords?
13660	how the Primate and Bishops of England?
13660	how the rich?
13660	of Demosthenes?
13660	of Plato?
13660	or is any competent hand engaged on it?
13660	this with the announcement of the Title as given above?
13660	why he does not_ give_ us that little Book on England he has promised so long?
13583	Mes enfans,said a French gentleman to the cherubs in the Picture,"Mes enfans, asseyez- vous?"
13583	What care I for the house? 13583 Why?
13583	( Did you get those two Newspapers?)
13583	* How do you like it?
13583	* Shall I say then,"In the mouth of two witnesses"?
13583	----------_"Forgotten you?
13583	--R. Waldo Emerson May I trouble you with a commission when you are in the City?
13583	A cassock?
13583	A sore calamity has fallen on us, or rather has fallen on my poor Wife( for what am I but like a spectator in comparison?
13583	A_ disjectum membrum;_ cut off from relations with men?
13583	After all, why should not Letters be on business too?
13583	All the world cries out, Why_ do you_ publish with Fraser?
13583	Always excepting my wonderful Professor, who among the living has thrown any memorable truths into circulation?
13583	And can not you renew and confirm your suggestion touching your appearance in this continent?
13583	And must not we say that Drunkenness is a virtue rather than that Cato has erred?
13583	And now the Heterodox, the Heterodox, where is that?
13583	And now why do not_ you_ write to me?
13583	And now will you not tell me what you read and write?
13583	And see Miss Martineau in the last_ Westminster Review:_--these things you are old enough to stand?
13583	And then, How?
13583	And what more can a man ask of his writing fellow- man?
13583	And yet did ever wise and philanthropic author use so defying a diction?
13583	And yet, as you will say, why not even of dollars?
13583	Are all these things interesting to you?
13583	As you know my whereabout, will you throw a little light on your own?
13583	But after all, will it suit America to print an_ unequal_ number of your two pairs of volumes?
13583	But has literature any parallel to the oddity of the vehicle chosen to convey this treasure?
13583	But now first as to this question, What I mean?
13583	But on the whole are we not the_ formalest_ people ever created under this Sun?
13583	But the way to find that word?
13583	But then where?
13583	But what avail any commendations of the form, until I know that the man is alive and well?
13583	But what makes the priest?
13583	By the by, have you not learned to read German now?
13583	By the bye, will you tell me some time or other in_ what_ American funds it is that your funded money, you once gave me note of, now lies?
13583	Can they not see the necessity of your coming to look after your American interests?
13583	Can you have the generosity to write,_ without_ an answer?
13583	Can you not have some_ Sartors_ sent?
13583	Can you tell me?
13583	Carlyle to Emerson Chelsea, London, 13 April, 1839 My Dear Emerson,--Has anything gone wrong with you?
13583	Could you send me two copies of the American_ Life of Schiller,_ if the thing is fit for making a present of, and easy to be got?
13583	Could you send us out a part of your edition at American prices, and at the same time to your advantage?
13583	Couldst not wait a little?
13583	Did I tell you that we hope shortly to send you some American verses and prose of good intent?
13583	Did he ever write to you?
13583	Did the Upholsterer make this Universe?
13583	Did you ever see such a vacant turnip- lantern as that Walsingham Goethe?
13583	Did you not tell me, Mr. Thomas Carlyle, sitting upon one of your broad hills, that it was Jesus Christ built Dunscore Kirk yonder?
13583	Do not the two together make one work?
13583	Do you know English Puseyism?
13583	Do you know what I think of doing with it?
13583	Do you not believe that the fields and woods have their proper virtue, and that there are good and great things which will not be spoken in the city?
13583	Do you read German or not?
13583	Do you read Landor, or know him, O seeing man?
13583	Do you remember Fraser''s Magazine for October, 1832, and a Translation there, with Notes, of a thing called Goethe''s Mahrchen?
13583	Emerson What manner of person is Heraud?
13583	Far, far better seems to me the unpopularity of this Philosophical Poem( shall I call it?)
13583	Fear not that!--Do you attend at all to this new_ Laudism_ of ours?
13583	For the sake of America will she not try the trip to Leith again?
13583	For which last Evangel, the confirmation and rehabilitation of all other Evangels whatsoever, how can I be too grateful?
13583	Gustave d''Eichthal( did you hear?)
13583	Has the heterodoxy arrived in Chelsea, and quite destroyed us even in the charity of our friend?
13583	Has the_ Meister_ ever arrived?
13583	Have I involved you in double postage by this loquacity?
13583	Have you received a letter from me with a pamphlet sent in December?
13583	How can I speak of them on a miserable scrap of blue paper?
13583	How do I know what is good for_ you,_ what authentically makes your own heart glad to work in it?
13583	How is it that you do not write to me?
13583	How should he be so poor?
13583	I am getting on with some studies of mine prosperously for me, have got three essays nearly done, and who knows but in the autumn I shall have a book?
13583	I am weary of hearing it said,"We love the Americans,""We wish well,"& c.,& c. What in God''s name should we do else?
13583	I ask constantly of all men whether life may not be poetic as well as stupid?
13583	I declare, I am ashamed of my intolerance:--and yet you have ceased to be a Teacher of theirs, have you not?
13583	I have seen some other Lions, and Lion''s-_providers;_ but consider them a worthless species.--When will you write, then?
13583	I know not what he will make of it;-- perhaps wry faces at it?
13583	I rejoice rather in my laziness; proving that I_ can_ sit.--But, after all, ought I not to be thankful?
13583	I sometimes ask myself rather earnestly, What is the duty of a citizen?
13583	I will not love them.--And yet, what am I saying?
13583	If it be not His will,--then is it not better so?
13583	If you in America wanted more also--?
13583	In any case what signifies it much?
13583	In this number what say you to the_ Elegy_ written by a youth who grew up in this town and lives near me,--Henry Thoreau?
13583	Is he now a preacher?
13583	Is it Cromwell still?
13583	Is lecturing and noise the way to get at that?
13583	Is not all that very morbid,--unworthy the children of Odin, not to speak of Luther, Knox, and the other Brave?
13583	Is there, at bottom, in the world or out of it, anything one would like so well, with one''s whole heart_ well,_ as PEACE?
13583	It seems then this Mahomet was not a quack?
13583	John Sterling scolds and kisses it( as the manner of the man is), and concludes by inquiring, whether there is any procurable Likeness of Emerson?
13583	Little and James Brown, 112 Washington St.), or is not this the right way?
13583	May I not call it temporary?
13583	Meanwhile, however, is it not pitiable?
13583	Milnes did get your Letter: I told you?
13583	More than one inquires of me, Has that Emerson of yours written nothing else?
13583	My copy of the_ Oration_ has never come: how is this?
13583	Norton* surely is a chimera; but what has the whole business they are jarring about become?
13583	Now, what does your question point at in reference to your new edition, asking"if we want more"?
13583	Or are you perhaps writing a Book?
13583	Or do you ever mean to learn it?
13583	Or perhaps it is not a whit worse; only rougher, more substantial; on the whole better?
13583	Or the power( and thence the call) to teach man''s duties as they flow from the Superhuman?
13583	Or who knows but Mahomet may go to the mountain?
13583	Patience;--and yet who can be patient?
13583	People cry over it:"Whitherward?
13583	Perhaps in some late number of the_ Zeitgenossen_ there may be something?
13583	Probably, there is no chance before the middle of March or so?
13583	Read the article_ Simonides_ by him in the_ London and Westminster_--brilliant prose, translations-- wooden?
13583	Says not the sarcasm,"Truth hath the plague in his house"?
13583	Shall it be Switzerland, shall it be Scotland, nay, shall it be America and Concord?
13583	Shall we have anthracite coal or wood in your chamber?
13583	Suppose you and I promulgate a treatise next,"How to see"?
13583	Tell me of the author''s health and welfare; or, will not he love me so much as to write me a letter with his own hand?
13583	Tell me whether you dislike it less; what you do think of it?
13583	That he is a better Christian, with his"bastard Christianity,"than the most of us shovel- hatted?
13583	That is the right way, is it not?
13583	The Cat- Raphael?
13583	The Printer is slack and lazy as Printers are; and you do not wish to write till you can send some news of him?
13583	The cost of a copy in sheets or"folded"( if that means somewhat more?)
13583	The second volume was just closing; shall it live for a third year?
13583	The way to speak it when found?"
13583	The"Lectures on the Times"are even now in progress?
13583	Then again I think it is perhaps better so; who knows?
13583	These voices of yours which I likened to unembodied souls, and censure sometimes for having no body,--how can they have a body?
13583	They are delivering Orations about him, and emitting other kinds of froth,_ ut mos est._ What hurt can it do?
13583	They are even of benefit?
13583	They ask, What shall be done?
13583	To fly in the teeth of English Puseyism, and risk such shrill welcome as I am pretty sure of, is questionable: yet at bottom why not?
13583	To what use, surely?
13583	Varnhagen himself will not bring up your fourth volume to the right size; hardly beyond 380 pages, I should think; yet what more can be done?
13583	Very saucy, was it not?
13583	Were you created by the Tailor?
13583	What am I to do?
13583	What can we say in these cases?
13583	What could Homer, Socrates, or St. Paul say that can not be said here?
13583	What does he at Clifton?
13583	What has life better to offer than such tidings?
13583	What have you to do with Italy?
13583	What help, O James?
13583	What is to hinder huge London from being to universal Saxondom what small Mycale was to the Tribes of Greece,--a place to hold your[ Greek] in?
13583	What news, my dear friend, from your study?
13583	What she is to write I know not, except it be what she has said, holding up the pamphlet,"Is it not a noble thing?
13583	What would it avail to tell you anecdotes of a sweet and wonderful boy, such as we solace and sadden ourselves with at home every morning and evening?
13583	What, What?"
13583	When will you come and redeem your pledge?
13583	Wherefore, putting all things together, can not I feel that I have washed my hands of this business in a quite tolerable manner?
13583	Why may you not give the reins to your wit, your pathos, your philosophy, and become that good despot which the virtuous orator is?
13583	Why not you come over, since I can not?
13583	Why will not this_ Appendix_ do, these_ Appendixes,_ to hang to the skirts of Volume Four as well?
13583	Will it ever reach him?
13583	Will not that do?
13583	Will this_ Appendix_ do, then?
13583	Will you say to him that he sent me some books two or three years ago without any account of prices annexed?
13583	Yet I work better under this base necessity, and then I have a certain delight( base also?)
13583	Yet how is it that I do not hear?
13583	Yet it was to fulfil my duty, finish my mission, not with much hope of gratifying him,--in the spirit of"If I love you, what is that to you?"
13583	Yet perhaps it is the proper place after all, seeing all places are improper: who knows?
13583	You can not believe it?
13583	You of course read his sublime"article"?
13583	You, friend Emerson, are to be a Farmer, you say, and dig Earth for your living?
13583	_ Varnhagen_ may be printed I think without offence, since there is need of it: if that will make up your fourth volume to a due size, why not?
13583	and WHEREFORE?
13583	and_ Mirabeau_ and_ Macaulay?_ Stearns Wheeler is very faithful in his loving labor,--has taken a world of pains with the sweetest smile.
13583	canst thou not make a pulpit by simply_ inverting the nearest tub?_"yet, alas!
13583	he has to fly again.--Did you get his letter?
13583	in the whole circle of History is there the parallel of that,--a true worship rising at this hour of the day for Bands and the Shovel- hat?
13583	my horror of_ Lecturing_ continues great; and what else is there for me to do there?
13583	or What is your American rule?
13583	was it you that defalcated?
13583	what designs ripened or executed?
13583	what hopes?
13583	what thoughts?