Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
F B Franklin Benjamin Sanborn
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So simply, and with such duties of devotion, study and work, did the future sage prepare himself for his great career in life. Mrs. Eipley has told me how, at the death of his only surviving sister, Mary Garoline, in 1814, at the age of three, young Balph, then eleven, conducted the family worship the next morning, and how she admired the grave and sweet composure with which he read the Scripture and prayed.
It must have reminded his aunt Mary, who was present, of her own grand- mother, Phebe W
...alker, wife of Rev.
Daniel Bliss, of Concord — " a woman," she says, '^such as I have read about, but, except her, never seen. She never fell before affliction. My mother re- d by Google RALPH WALDO EMERSON 15 proached her with want of feeling because she went to church whilst her husband lay dead in the house (1764).
But she was rapt in another world.'' So was her great-grandson in his childhood and youth; and his meditations on divine things, as his ancestor, Peter Bolkeley said, ^'did, indeed, breed an holy serenity.'' Smerson, who, under other names, was often reciting his own experiences, has a passage in his "Domestic Life" wMch describes the fiamily life of his boyhood and youth, presenting "the eager, blushing boys discharging as they can tiieir household chores, and hasten- ing into the sitting-room to the study of to-morrow's merciless lesson," and por- traying their delights: — ''The warm sympathy with which they kindle each other in school-yard, or bam, or woodshed, with scraps of poetry or song, with phrases of the last oration or mimicry of the orator ; the youthfdl d by Google 16 EALPH WALDO EMEESON criticisia of the sermons on Sunday ; the school declamation^ faithfolly rehearsed at home ; the first solitary joys of literary vanity, when the translation or the theme has been completed, sitting alone, near the top of the house.


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