Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely... The Metaphysical Magazine - Page 1981905Full view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers,... | |
| 1848 - 1292 pages
...of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves child-like to the genius of ihrir age, betraying their perception that the eternal was...men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendant destiny, and not pushed into a corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but redeemers... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...contemporaries, the connexion of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance;... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers,... | |
| Lajos Kossuth - 1853 - 426 pages
...Providence assigned them. Sir, the words are yours which I quote. You have told your people that they are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same destiny, that they are not minors and invalids in a protected corner ; but guides, redeemers, and benefactors,... | |
| Anna Cabot Lowell - 1856 - 330 pages
...contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves child-like to the genius of their age, betraying their perception...through their hands, predominating in all their being. What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text in the face and behaviour of children, babes and... | |
| 1859 - 418 pages
...contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception...their hands, predominating in all their being." And be not discouraged by the slight obstacles that may hedge up your path. I need not mention the many... | |
| M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 pages
...child-like to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being. WOMAN'S EDUCATION. Buskin. "A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet." and... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...highest mind the same transcendent- destiny ; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers,... | |
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