 If therefore a man claims to know and speak of God and carries you backward to the phraseology of some old mouldered nation in another country, in another world, believe him not.  Seership and Prophecy - Page 24by Richard Dimsdale Stocker - 1907 - 31 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...man claims to know and speak of God, and carries you backward to the phraseology of some old moldered nation in another country, in another world, believe him not. Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion ? Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1875 - 618 pages
...Dead-Sea fni i t. On another occasion Emerson writes : " If a man claims to know and speak of God, and carries you backward to the phraseology of some...world, believe him not. Is the acorn better than the oak, which is its fulness and completion 1" (i. 28). Shall we then say Emerson is the oak whereof Isaiah... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...particular miracles disappear. This is and must be. If, therefore, a man claims to know and speak of God, and carries you backward to the phraseology of some...world, believe him not. Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fulness and completion ? Is the parent better than the" child into whom he has cast... | |
 | 1842 - 740 pages
...or Jeremiah, or Paul.' — Essay ii., p. 68. ' If, then-fore, a man claims to know and speak of God, and carries you backward to the phraseology of some...another country, in another world, believe him not. * « * Whence this worship of the past ? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and majesty... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1842 - 782 pages
...or Jeremiah, or Paul.'— Essay ii., p. 68. ' If, therefore, a man claims to know and speak of God, and carries you backward to the phraseology of some...another country, in another world, believe him not. * * * Whence this worship of the past ? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and majesty... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...miracle, petty and particular miracles disappear. If, therefore, a man claims to know and speak of God, and carries you backward to the phraseology of some...world, believe him not. Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fulness and completion ? Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...particular miracles disappear. This is and must be. If, therefore, a man claims to know and speak of God, and carries you backward to the phraseology of some...world, believe him not. Is the acorn better than the oak, which is its fulness and completion ? Is the parent better than the child, into whom he has cast... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...particular miracles disappear. This is and must be. If, therefore, a man claims to know and speak of God, and carries you backward to the phraseology of some...world, believe him not. Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fulness and completion ? Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...particular miracles disappear. This is and must be. If, therefore, a man claims to know and speak of God, and carries you backward to the phraseology of some...world, believe him not. Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion ? Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...particular miracles disappear. This is and must be. If, therefore, a man claims to know and speak of God, and carries you backward to the phraseology of some...world, believe him not. Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion ? Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast... | |
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