 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1841 - 408 pages
...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...flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Mnsps, Platr^gjH Mil ton is, that they set at naught books and traditions,...flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...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...flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at nought books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but...flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bard and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...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...flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it... | |
 | 1850 - 548 pages
...learning something."— Nature, p. 92. " The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton, is that they set at naught books and traditions, and...flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." " Kingdom and lordship, power and estate are a gaudier... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...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,...flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...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,...flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it... | |
 | 1849 - 448 pages
...learning something."— Nature, p. 92. " The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton, ¡3 that they set at naught books and traditions, and...flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." "Kingdom and lordship, power and estate are a gaudier... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...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...flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it... | |
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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 gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament 
