 Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to prefer imperfect theories, and sentences, which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.  Massachusetts Quarterly Review - Page 2201850Full view - About this book
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...science, we accept the sentence of Plato, that " poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history." Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled...communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit. I shall therefore conclude this essay with some traditions of man and nature, which a certain poet... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...science, we accept the sentence of Plato, that " Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history." Every surmise and vaticination of the mind, is entitled...communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit. I shall therefore conclude this essay with some traditions of man and nature, which a certain poet... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...science, we accept the sentence of Plato, that " poetry comes nearer to vital truth than histoty." Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled...communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit. I shall therefore conclude this essay with some traditions of man and Nature, which a certain poet... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...science, we accept the sentence of Plato, that, " poetry comes nearer to vital truth_ than history." Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled...communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit. I shall therefore conclude this essay with some traditions of man and nature, which a certain poet... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 pages
...science', we accept the sentence of Plato, that, " poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history." Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled...suggestion. A wise writer will feel that the ends of stiidy and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 pages
...science, we accept the sentence of Plato, that " poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history." Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled...communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit. I shall therefore conclude this essay with some traditions of man and nature," which a certain poet... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...science, we accept the sentence of Plato, that " poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history." Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled...communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit. I shall therefore conclude this essay with some traditions of man and nature, which a certain poet... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...science, we accept the sentence of Plato, that " poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history." Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled...communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit. I shall therefore conclude this essay with some traditions of man and Nature, which a certain poet... | |
 | 1869 - 688 pages
...all its variety. Well, indeed, do the words of Emerson apply to Sir Charles in this respect : — " Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled...regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, now activity to the torpid spirit." Indeed, " announcing undiscovered regions of thought," appears... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...science, we accept the sentence of Plato, that " poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history." Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled...communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit. I shall therefore conclude this essay with some traditions of man and nature, which a certain poet... | |
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