The Teachers of EmersonSturgis & Walton Company, 1910 - 323 páginas |
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... readings in the old philosophers of Greece . From these sons of light he drank in large draughts of intellectual day . The author has attempted to show this by a com- parative study of Emerson and the Platonists . In his studies the ...
... readings in the old philosophers of Greece . From these sons of light he drank in large draughts of intellectual day . The author has attempted to show this by a com- parative study of Emerson and the Platonists . In his studies the ...
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... readers is presented in the volumes of Jowett's translation ( 1871 ) . Those volumes came to Emerson's shelves , but so late in life as to find him with his work already done . It was the fruits of an earlier era of Platonic scholarship ...
... readers is presented in the volumes of Jowett's translation ( 1871 ) . Those volumes came to Emerson's shelves , but so late in life as to find him with his work already done . It was the fruits of an earlier era of Platonic scholarship ...
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... readings in Tay- lor's edition ; Emerson still remained at heart a sympathizer with the manner of the later school of Platonism . His readings in other translations of Thomas Taylor are proof of the attraction which the writings of the ...
... readings in Tay- lor's edition ; Emerson still remained at heart a sympathizer with the manner of the later school of Platonism . His readings in other translations of Thomas Taylor are proof of the attraction which the writings of the ...
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... Dr. Everard in 1650 , Emerson also 1 Complete Works , VII . , 202 . 2 J. E. Cabot , A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson , I. , 290 , 291 . 3 Ibid . , II . , 449 . had an acquaintance . His reading led him into a 6 THE TEACHERS OF EMERSON.
... Dr. Everard in 1650 , Emerson also 1 Complete Works , VII . , 202 . 2 J. E. Cabot , A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson , I. , 290 , 291 . 3 Ibid . , II . , 449 . had an acquaintance . His reading led him into a 6 THE TEACHERS OF EMERSON.
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... reading in the Neo - Platonists was then as vital a thing as his reading in Plato ; and his indebtedness to these writers must never be forgotten in explaining his concep- tion of Platonism . For the man whose life labors made possi ...
... reading in the Neo - Platonists was then as vital a thing as his reading in Plato ; and his indebtedness to these writers must never be forgotten in explaining his concep- tion of Platonism . For the man whose life labors made possi ...
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according ancient appear Bacon beauty behold body Bohn translation called cause celestial love character Coleridge Coleridge's Complete conception Cudworth Dæmonic dæmons divine doctrine Emer Emerson found Emerson's mind ence essay essence eternal evil explains eyes F. B. Sanborn fable Fate finds flux gods Hence Heraclitus highest Hindoo holds human Iamblichus Ibid idea ideal illusions imitation ineffable intel intellect intuition Kant light manner method of nature moral mystic experience Neo-Platonic Ocellus Lucanus oracle Over-Soul Parmenides passage Phædrus phantasy philosophy Platonists Plotinus Plutarch poem poet poetry principle Proclus pure Pythagorean Ralph Waldo Emerson reading reason relation Samuel Taylor Coleridge says Select sense soul speaks Sphinx spirit subsist symbol Synesius tains teaching Theology of Plato theory thinking Thomas Taylor thou thought Timæus of Plato tion True Intellectual System truth ture union Universal Mind vision whole words writes
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Página 105 - Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me ; I am part or particle of God.
Página 91 - OUR age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?
Página 25 - Books are the best of things, well used ; abused, among the worst. What is the right use ? What is the one end which all means go to effect ? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
Página 85 - ... that Unity, that Over-soul, within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other...
Página 211 - It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he is capable of a new energy (as of an intellect doubled on itself), by abandonment to the nature of things; that beside his privacy of power as an individual man, there is a great public power on which he can draw, by unlocking, at all risks, his human doors, and suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him; then he is caught up into the life of the universe,...
Página 277 - Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good.
Página 192 - Such and so grew these holy piles, Whilst love and terror laid the tiles. Earth proudly wears the Parthenon, As the best gem upon her zone...
Página 88 - All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet; is not a faculty, but a light; is not the intellect or the will, but the master of the intellect and the will; is the background of our being, in which they lie, - an immensity not possessed and that cannot be possessed.
Página 292 - This relation between the mind and matter is not fancied by some poet, but stands in the will of God, and so is free to be known by all men.
Página 192 - These temples grew as grows the grass; Art might obey, but not surpass. The passive Master lent his hand To the vast soul that o'er him planned ; And the same power that reared the shrine Bestrode the tribes that knelt within.