Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what thev thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of... The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Página 245de Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 páginas
...Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that...dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. Jp <every work of genius we recognize our own rejected 1 thoughts : they come back to us with a certain... | |
| Fredrika Bremer - 1858 - 702 páginas
...his own soul, is that they set books and traditions at naught, and spoke not what men. but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that...genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts ; they conic back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson... | |
| John Relly Beard - 1860 - 202 páginas
...Luke, iv. 18. None so blind as they who will not see. Light is. light, though the blind see it not. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. There is a poor blind man who every day, In summer sunshine, or in winter's rain, Daily as tolls the... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 páginas
...Milton, is that they set at nonght books and traditions, and spoke not what men said but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." "Kingdom and lordship, power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a... | |
| Andrew Jackson Davis - 1867 - 422 páginas
...saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. 2 A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which Hashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. 3 We... | |
| Andrew Jackson Davis - 1868 - 412 páginas
...saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. 2 A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. 3 We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes... | |
| Giles Badger Stebbins - 1872 - 408 páginas
...philosopher, to the saint, all things are sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes... | |
| Giles Badger Stebbins - 1872 - 416 páginas
...philosopher, to the saint, all things are sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes... | |
| Alfred Barron - 1875 - 344 páginas
...as are in me, and I shall go on without fear of the charge of plagiarism. A modern writer well says, "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." IV. ALWAYS have a particular... | |
| Alfred Barron - 1875 - 336 páginas
...as are in me, and I shall go on without fear of the charge of plagiarism. A modern writer well says, "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." IV. ALWAYS have a particular... | |
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