 Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding. The understanding caught this high chant from the poet's lips, and said, in the next age, 'This was Jehovah come down out of heaven. I will kill you, if you say he was a man.  Emerson, His Life and Writings - Page 16by January Searle - 1855 - 48 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1846 - 844 pages
...caught this high chant from the poet's lips, and said in the next age, 'This was JEHOVAH, come down from Heaven. I will kill you, if you say he was a man.' "* "Churches are not built on his principles, but on his tropes. Christianity became a Mythus, as the... | |
 | 1848 - 596 pages
...Understanding. The understanding caught this high chant from the poet's lips, and said, in the next age, ' This was Jehovah come down out of heaven. I will kill...are not built on his principles, but on his tropes." From these extracts, which might easily have been multiplied, it is plain that Mr Emerson denies a... | |
 | 1848 - 916 pages
...understanding. The understanding caught this high chant from (ho poet's lips, and said, in the next age, ' This was Jehovah come down out of heaven. I will kill you, if you say he is a man.' The idioms of his language, and the figures of his rhetoric, have usurped the place of his... | |
 | 1853 - 642 pages
...understanding. The understanding caught this high chant from the poet's lips, and said in the next age, ' This was Jehovah, come down out of heaven. I will...became a mythus, as the poetic teaching of Greece and Egypt before . . . He felt respect for Moses and the prophets ; but no unfit tenderness at postponing... | |
 | 1890 - 880 pages
...The course of the argument against them is very briefly and effectively stated by Mr. Emerson : — " This was Jehovah come down out of heaven. I will kill you if yon say he was a man." It seems as if there should be certain laws of etiquette regulating the relation... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 pages
...Understanding. The understanding caught this high chant from the poet's lips, and said, in the next age, ' This was Jehovah come down out of heaven. I will kill...on his principles, but on his tropes. Christianity be2ame a Mythus, as the poetic teaching of Greece and of Egypt, before. He spoke of miracles ; for... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...Understanding. The understanding caught this high chant from the poet's lips, and said, in the next age, ' This was Jehovah come down out of heaven. I will kill...principles, but on his tropes. Christianity became a Myth us, as the poetic teaching of Greece and of Egypt, before. He spoke of miracles ; for he felt... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 326 pages
...Understanding. The understanding caught this high chant from the poet's lips, and said, in the next age, " This was Jehovah come down out of heaven. I will kill you, if you say lie was a man." The idioms of his language, and the figures of his rhetoric, have usurped tlie place... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 406 pages
...nor in the aspiration, of society." 2 Jesus was a true prophet, saw God incarnated in all men ; but " the idioms of his language and the figures of his rhetoric have usurped the place of his truth, and the churches are not built on his principles, but on his tropes. Christianity became a mythos, as the... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 416 pages
...society."2 Jesus was a true prophet, saw God incarnated in all men ; but " the idioms of his langnage and the figures of his rhetoric have usurped the place of his truth, and the churches are not built on his principles, but on his tropes. Christianity became a mythos, as the... | |
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