God comes to see us without bell:" that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie... Essays: First Series - Page 216by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...man. A wise old proverb says, ' God comes to see us without bell :' that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens,...open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to all the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to all the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love,...Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever got above, but always they tower over us, and most in the moment when our interests tempt us to wound them. The sovereignty... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...man. A wise old proverb says, " God comes to see us without bell:" that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens,...open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to all the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...man. A wise old proverb says, " God comes to see us without bell: " that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens,...open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to all the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever... | |
| 1848 - 596 pages
...attributes which Mr Emerson ascribes to it. He tells us that it is infinite. " A« there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens,...God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away, and we lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to all the attributes of God.' Now, if... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...man. A wise old proverb says, " God comes to see us without bell : " that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens,...open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to all the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...man. A wise old provetb says, " God comes to see us without bell : " that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens,...open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to all the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever... | |
| January Searle - 1855 - 94 pages
...old proverb says : — " God comes to see us without bell ;" — that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens,...walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the doeps of spiritual nature, to all the attributes of God. Justice we see and know ; Love, Freedom, Power.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
....Vie .knew that_all spiritual beingjs Jnj^an A wise old provSsee us that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where rnaji^hejsffect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side... | |
| Jules Remy, Julius Lucius Brenchley - 1861 - 674 pages
...bell;' that is, as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so there is no bar or wall in the soul, where man the effect ceases,...cause begins. The walls are taken away, we lie open on all sides to the deeps of spiritual nature, to all the attributes of God. Justice we see and know,... | |
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