 There is no doctrine of the 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...  Transcendentalism: And Other Addresses - Page 88by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1886 - 103 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1846 - 844 pages
...a distortion did his doctrines and memory suffer in the same, in the next, and the following ages ! There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear...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,... | |
 | 1848 - 916 pages
...a distortion did his doctrine and memory suffer in the same, in the next, and the following ages ! There is no doctrine of the reason, which will bear...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... | |
 | George Wood - 1848 - 508 pages
...positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute. It is like cold, which is the absence of heat.'* ' There is no doctrine of the reason which will bear to be taught by the understanding.'t This last aphorism perplexed me not a little ; it seemed to make the brain a sort... | |
 | 1851 - 588 pages
...Emerson) did Christ's doctrine and memory suffer in the same, in the next, and the following ages ! There is no doctrine of the reason which will bear to be taught by the understanding."* So we must veil our faces before the dogmas of this new priesthood, and accept the words of Jesus in... | |
 | January Searle - 1855 - 94 pages
...what a distortion did his doctrine and memory suffer in the same, in the next, and following ages 1 There is no doctrine of the reason which will bear to be taught to the understanding. The understanding caught this high ohaunt from the poet'* lips, and said in the... | |
 | 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 - 1876 - 326 pages
...a distortion did his doctrine and memory suffer in the same, in the next, and the following ages ! There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 328 pages
...a distortion did his doctrine and memory sulTer in the same, in the next, and the following ages ! There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear...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 the place... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 488 pages
...a distortion did his doctrine and memory suffer in the same, in the next, and the following ages ! There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear...Jehovah come down out of heaven. I will kill you if yon say he was a man.' The idioms of his language and the figures of his rhetoric have usurped the... | |
 | 1889 - 850 pages
...in this jubilee of sublime emotion, " I am divine. Through me God acts ; through me speaks. " . . . There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear...Understanding. The Understanding caught this high chant /rom the poet's lips and said, in the next age, "This was Jehovah come down out of heaven. I will kill... | |
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