Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[Footnote 219: Thor and Woden. Woden or Odin was the chief god of Scandinavian mythology. Thor, his elder son, was the god of thunder. From these names come the names of the days Wednesday and Thursday.] [Footnote 220: Explain the meaning of this sentence.] [Footnote 221: You, or you, addressing different persons.] [Footnote 222: "The truth shall make you free."--_John_, viii. 32.] [Footnote 223: Antinomianism, the doctrine that the moral law is not binding under the gospel dispensation, faith alone being necessary to salvation.] [Footnote 224: "There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that--to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail." GEORGE ELIOT, _Middlemarch_, lxxvi.] [Footnote 225: Explain the use of _it_ in these expressions.] [Footnote 226: Stoic, a disciple of the Greek philosopher Zeno, who taught that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy and grief, and should submit without complaint to the inevitable.] [Footnote 227: Word made flesh, see _John_, i. 14.] [Footnote 228: Healing to the nations, see _Revelation_, xxii. 2.] [Footnote 229: In what prayers do men allow themselves to indulge?] |
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