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" thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. 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 spoke not what men but what... "
The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson. In Two Volumes - Page 241
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870
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Essays [1st ser., ed.] with preface by T. Carlyle

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1841 - 408 pages
...conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for always the inmost becomes the outmost,—and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of...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,...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets 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, and spoke not what men but...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...conviction and it shall be the universal sense; for always the inmost becomes the outmost,—and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of...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,...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for always the inmost becomes the outmost—and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of...ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at nought books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man should learn to detect...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ; for always the inmost becomes the outmost,—and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of...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,...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of...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,...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of...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,...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 3

1850 - 548 pages
...appendix to the soul." " No man ever prayed heartily, without learning something."— Nature, p. 92. " The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, 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,...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 3

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 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,...
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Essays [1st ser., ed.] with preface by T. Carlyle

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost becomes in due time the outmost,—and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of...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,...
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