Book/Printed Material Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, and reading & studying
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Image 1 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … QtM i BENSONS ESSAYS Metaphysical and Abstract Subjects FIRST SERIES On Friendship On Learning On Beauty On Marriage On Success On Ethics and Religion On Reading and Studying On Love On Fear…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 2 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, …- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 3 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … BENSONS ESSAYS Fear Beauty Love Marriage Death Justice Success Learning Ethics Religion and Reading Studying First Kdition OSCAR JEROME BENSON Author NEW YORK- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 4 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, …- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 5 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … There is always in effective action something durable and precious and mighty something seemingly sent from a great place something with a power indescribable and unconquerable and unapproachable something so strongly fortified…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 6 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, …- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 7 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … BENSONS ESSAYS Metaphysical and Abstract Subjects First Series Commonly called a pessimist Any man in poverty and obscurity who concerns himself not with what the people think or with our permitted side…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 8 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … A PEEP THROUGH THE KEY HOLE T HIS book which is the first of its kind to be written and published by a Negro author it is hoped will in the least…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 9 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … f LIST OF PATRONS NOTEThe author is indebted to each listed patron for their indispensable finan cial support They have in no way indorsed the contents William Bridges Editor of the Challenge…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 10 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … 1 Miss Helen Casey manicurist 106 West 135th Street Frank S Butler representing Butler Music Company Music Publishers 1431 Broadway Edmund Green 161 S 9th Avenue Mt Vernon Newspaper Business Miss L…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 11 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … ON FRIENDSHIP I Do Not Seelk My Friends and They Do Not Seek Me IF 1 attempt to write on this subject the man or woman who reads the 1 essay will…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 12 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … deeply teaches him to begin at the seat of mistrust As he finds good in this and that person the seat of trust will be lured to his heart And the race…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 13 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … virtue from the immortal pillars of heavens blessed hand to guide us on ward in this noble land That upon this blessed ground some one may hear our silent voices say O…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 14 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … heart the luck to press the first kiss to be able to sell the first sorrow and the first joy Love is more true when it is inevitable and incomprehensible The silence…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 15 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … Hard or soft then he will eventually fall to the charm of one or the other Why should 1 want to live tomorrow Is it because that I love so well the…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 16 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … force in man to complete the necessary power to achieve All true patriotism is manifestly love for humanity To make it more explicit and effective we say ideal and principal So men…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 17 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … tation of love as it should be written in the minds of all The voice of every man and woman adds a new thought to any dictum I was inspired to write…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 18 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … retribution which wiil give them the penalty Leave them to the Devil s wings and fly into a state of bliss Such is unrequited love Its soul laughs at your seriousness All…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 19 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … grow fonder which is never true where one has true love Absence make us think Does true love run smooth When love does not run smoothly there is love sickness and perturbation…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 20 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … ley of deaththe soul is enticed and enhanced into the beauties of peace and happiness When God cuts loose a lover all things seem to bow with tranquility This conscious rectitude teaches…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 21 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … The world in its originality is the throne of beauty After summer heat after departure of the beautiful trees the shrubbery and the fragrance of gardens when the Fall draws near and…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 22 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … marriages strongly fortified Yet without feeling our obligations to those holy written laws of God a contract is easily broken Most women who have failed in marriage need only to say Well…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 23 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … thmgs hurt the most And some words are never forgotten True mar riage is like true love It does not see only in the light of both hearts thumping for perpetual unity…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 24 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … ON DEATH They died but not as lavish of their blood On thinking death itself was simply good Their wishes neither were to live nor die But to do both alike commendably…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 25 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … ing men to discuss the subject more thoroughly ard frequently Some men during the ancient days met horrib death which had a tendency also to fill their generation with fear Among them…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 26 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … and charming its spectatoi s until it reaches a land of sunshine and flowers where birds will sing its prases unto all men Let it charm the angels Man is forever confronted…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 27 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … Genius finds genius Our imagination can stretch these vivid pictures of beauty like our wind can expand a rubber balloon Art is not for arts sake but as Butler once said The…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 28 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … ON JUSTICE TT has been often said that Sophocles was better than Euripides in dignity of sentiment because Sophocles represented men as they ought to be while Euripides described them as they…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 29 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … Jupiter Mars Apollo Mercury and Bacchus These were all handsomely de corated ornaments and images which were supposed to be able to command the stars to repel and converse with the dead…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 30 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … We seldom if ever see a man like he should be He is either timid too proud too envious or too jealous He either has no religion or possesses too much of…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 31 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … ON FEAR JT was Job who said Upon earth there is not his like who is made without fear And from chilhood we are made cowards with fear and the kind of…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 32 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … is contemplated Where no other punishment is contemplated they will begin to fear hell the worse of punishment How strange it seems that all this teaching is necessary to make men fear…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 33 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … sages tell us that we are a young race after all our achievements in art science and philosophy Yet we are a long distance from the horrors of the cave man stuff…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 34 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … is beyond our power to improve or to depreciate So we must contend with many fears even if we abolish the most foolish and that is the fear of a place downward…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 35 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … the only real rest there is for the weary I once asked an old colored man who was walking along the pines of Virginia Are you here yet I am here for…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 36 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … cleansing my mind of many perturbations The principal ones were envy jealousy malice and prejudice of race or color and the desire not to enjoy your formalities on special occasions or to…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 37 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … depends upon who utters We do not envy college men and they should not try to disparage all learning outside of the college We all know how to go to college when…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 38 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … ON ETHICS AND RELIGION W HAT is mans ethical duties to man Is there not a moral philosophy that teaches man his duties towards men as well as women Or are there…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 39 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … roughnecks It is the old fashioned maxim that he who grins or shows sunshine in his countenance will show signs of silliness and softness Again it is a true philosophical teaching that…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
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Image 40 of Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, … power not only to do those things that ordinarily can be accomplished but that we shall do our work so well in perfection that it will be finished a little better than…- Contributor: Benson, Oscar Jerome - Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1921
About this Item
Title
- Benson's essays; fear, beauty, love, marriage, death, justice, success, learning, ethics & religion, and reading & studying
Names
- Benson, Oscar Jerome
- Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- New York, 1921.
Notes
- - LAC aaa 2018-11-08 update (1 card)
- - LAC ecr 2018-11-14 review
- - rbacq9512
- - LC Review of LAC Completed/Approved 2018-11-19
Medium
- 42 p. illus. (port.) 26 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- BJ1581 .B5638 1921
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 22001242
Online Format
- image
- online text