...well as of zeal and enthusiasm. If the assembly was disorderly, it was picturesque. Madmen, madwomen, men with beards, Dunkers, Muggletonians, Come-outers,...Abolitionists, Calvinists, Unitarians, and Philosophers, — all came successively to the top and seized their moment, if not their hour, wherein to chide,...

...entitled "Chardon Street and Bible Conventions/' records the coming together of a company of " madmen, mad women, men with beards, Dunkers, Muggletonians,...Abolitionists, Calvinists, Unitarians, and Philosophers," to discuss church discipline and the authenticity of the Bible. Among those present were Dr. Channing,...

...Emerson, the " Friends of Universal Progress" would hold conventions composed of "madmen, madwomen, men with beards, Dunkers, Muggletonians, Come-outers,...Abolitionists, Calvinists, Unitarians, and philosophers." Yet in these very meetings, thus quaintly variegated, were such men as Channing, Alcott, Parker, Garrison,...

...assembled at Chardon Street, Boston, a motley group, to quote Emerson's own list, of " madmen, madwomen, men with beards, Dunkers, Muggletonians, Come-outers,...Abolitionists, Calvinists, Unitarians, and Philosophers." The value of a manlike Emerson was at sucli a crisis incalculable. A recognized leader in the movement,...

...Emerson, of a grand convention of enthusiasts held at Boston a few years before. " If," says he, " the assembly was disorderly, it was picturesque. Mad men, mad women, 'men with beards, Dunkers, Muggeltonians, Gome-outers!" — and so the enumeration of the eccentric medley proceeds. The beard,...

...Emerson, of a grand convention of enthusiasts held at Boston a few years before. " If," says he, " the assembly was disorderly, it was picturesque. Mad men, mad women, men with beards, Bunkers, Muggeltonians, Gome-outers!" — and so the enumeration of the eccentric medley proceeds....

...confusion, eccentricity, and freak appeared, as well as of zeal and enthusiasm. . . . Madmen, madwomen, men with beards, Dunkers, Muggletonians, Come-outers,...Abolitionists, Calvinists, Unitarians, and philosophers, all came successively to the top, and seized their moment, if not their hour, wherein to chide, or...

...to ridicule. " If the assembly was disorderly," said Emerson, "it was picturesque. Madmen, madwomen, men with beards, Dunkers, Muggletonians, Comeouters,...Abolitionists, Calvinists, Unitarians, and Philosophers, — all came successively to the top." The mistakes of Moses and the mistakes of the churches were...

...head in the Chardon Street Convention, 1840-1841, of which he names the component parts : " Madmen, mad women, men with beards, Dunkers, Muggletonians,...Abolitionists, Calvinists, Unitarians, and philosophers," — a convocation of dissent. The catalogue of the pure transcendental sectaries would be quite as...

...members of the Chardon Street Convention who gathered in Boston in November, 1840: " Madmen, madwomen, men with beards, Dunkers, Muggletonians, Come-outers,...Abolitionists, Calvinists, Unitarians, and Philosophers." 1 Surely these were wild and " transcendental" times! Now all the radical tendencies of that day may...