 Yet see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself unless he speak the phraseology of I know not what David, or Jeremiah, or Paul. We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts, on a few lives. We are like children who repeat by rote...  Essays and English Traits - Page 74by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 493 pagesFull view - About this book
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...on a few texts, on a few lives. We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors, and, as they grow older, of the men of...painfully recollecting the exact words -they spoke; 23. In what is " the blade of grass or the Wowing rose " superior to the person? Cf. "These roses under... | |
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