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" A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been "blasted with excess of light. "
Essays, First Series - Page 305
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1891 - 304 pages
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ...

New Church gen. confer - 1844 - 496 pages
..." How serpentine are the foldings of the line of beauty in the poetical fancies of some writers." " A certain tendency to insanity has always attended...excess of light. The trances of Socrates; the union of Photinus; the vision of Porphyry: the conversion of Paul; the aurora of Behmen; the convulsions of...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...individual, from an ecstasy and trance and prophetic inspiration,—which is its rarer appearance,—to the faintest glow of virtuous emotion, in which form...attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been " blasted with excess of light." The trances of Socrates, the "union" of Plotinus, the...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...character and duration of this enthusiasm varies with the state of the individual, from an ecstacy and trance and prophetic inspiration, — which is its...light." The trances of Socrates ; the " union" of Flotinus ; the vision of Porphyry ; the conversion of Paul ; the aurora of Behmen ; the convulsions...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...character and duration of this enthusiasm varies with the state of the individual, from an ecstacy and trance and prophetic inspiration, — which is its...light." The trances of Socrates ; the " union " of Flotinus ; the vision of Porphyry ; the convursion of Paul ; the aurora of Behmen ; the convulsions...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 356 pages
...character and duration of this enthusiasm varies with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy and trance and prophetic inspiration, — which is its...attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been "blasted with excess of light." The trances of Socrates, the " union " of Plotinus, the...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...character and duration of this enthusiasm varies with the state of the individual, from iz ecstasy and trance and prophetic inspiration, — which is its rarer appearance,— to the faintest glow of virtaous emotion, in which form it warms, like our household fires, all the families and associations...
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Essays [1st ser., ed.] with preface by T. Carlyle

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...character and duration of this enthusiasm varies with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy and trance and prophetic inspiration, — which is its...attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been " blasted with excess of light." The trances of Socrates, the "union" of Plotinus, the...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 98

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1856 - 594 pages
...individual ; from an ecstacy, a trance, and prophetic inspiration, to the faintest glow of virtuous emotion. A certain tendency to insanity has always attended the opening of the religions sense in men, as if blasted with excess of light. The trances of Socrates, the union of Plotinus,...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...character and duration of this enthusiasm varies with the state of the individual, from an ecstasy and trance and prophetic inspiration, — which is its...attended the opening of the religious sense in men, as if they had been "blasted with excess of light." The trances of Socrates, the "union" of Plotinus, the...
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The British Millennial Harbinger

1858 - 652 pages
...character and duration of this enthusiasm varies with the state of the individual, from an ecstacy, and trance, and prophetic inspiration — which is its...appearance — to the faintest glow of virtuous emotion, in 52« Nov. 1, '58. 527 which form it warms, like our household fires, all the families and associations...
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