I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty ; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light and in large relations, whilst they must make painful corrections and keep... Complete Works - Page 12by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899Full view - About this book
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1896 - 616 pages
...the ideas, aspirations, tendencies of their generations. ' I count him a great man,' says Emerson, 'who inhabits a higher sphere of thought into which other men rise with labour and difficulty ; he has but to open his eyes, to see things in a true light and in relations.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 270 pages
...plant, which grows, like the palm, from within outward. His own affair, though impossible to others, he can open with celerity and in sport. It is easy to...great deal of pains to waylay and entrap that which will of itself fall into our hand. I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 204 pages
...salt. We take a great deal of pains to waylay and entrap that which will of itself fall into our hand. I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labour and difficulty ; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations;... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 pages
...human mind." "Man is that noble endogenous plant which grows, like tbe palm, from within, outward. ... I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other meu rise with labour and difficulty ; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and... | |
| James Hain Friswell - 1866 - 328 pages
...then, is a great man, who by himself makes others considerable and his age to be remembered?. He is one who "inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with difficulty, whose eyes see things in the. true light and in large relations." He keeps other men in... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 pages
...human mind." "Man is that noble endogenous plant which grows, like the palm, from within, outward. ... I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labour and difficulty ; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 290 pages
...plant which grows, like the palm, from within outward. His own affair, though impossible to others, he can open with celerity and in sport. It is easy to...sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor aud difficulty ; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light and in large relations,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 504 pages
...plant which grows, like the palm, from within outward. His own affair, though impossible to others, he can open with celerity and in sport. It is easy to...sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labour and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in largo relations... | |
| RALPH WALDO EMERSON - 1883 - 494 pages
...plant which grows, like the palm, from within outward. His own affair, though impossible to others, he can open with celerity and in sport. It is easy to...sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labour and difficulty; ho has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...plant which grows, like the palm, from within outward. His own affair, though impossible to others, he ingham Society \Ve take a great deal of pains to waylay and entrap that which of itself will fall into our hands.... | |
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