 | 1905 - 880 pages
...Roman emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Marcus Aurelius is not a great writer, a great philosophy-maker; he is the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit " Emerson's abiding word for us, the word by which being dead he yet speaks to us, is this: 'That which... | |
 | 1883 - 520 pages
...awakener and inspirer of men, he kindles the intellectual power to light unattained before, "he is the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit." If a man can be all this without poetry, philosophy or literary art one would be willing to let those... | |
 | Concord School of Philosophy - 1884 - 488 pages
...regaining the right use of his reason, Mr. Arnold proceeds to compare Emerson with Marcus Aurelius, as " the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit." He certainly was that, and more; and he did resemble Marcus Aurelius more than he resembled Nebuchadnezzar... | |
 | 1884 - 502 pages
...directness, concreteness, and energy. Nor is his prose true and sound throughout, nor his philosophy. " He is the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit." His temper holds the secret of his influence ; by his serene, beautiful spirit he holds us fast to... | |
 | Egbert Coffin Smyth - 1884 - 720 pages
...rank Emerson. His relation to us is more like that of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. He is preeminently the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit His insight is admirable, his truth precious ; but the secret of his effect is in his serene, beautiful,... | |
 | Samuel Edward Herrick - 1884 - 406 pages
...Arnold, in his recent lecture on Emerson, said that " Mr. Emerson's great work lay in this, that he was the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit," which is but another way of saying that Mr. Emerson was a mystic. For mysticism is not an ism, but... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1884 - 524 pages
...philosophy-maker ; he is the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit. Emerson is the same. He is the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit. All the points in thinking which are necessary for this purpose he takes ; but he does not combine... | |
 | 1900 - 516 pages
...more fitting tribute could be offered to the memory of a man so justly characterized by Matthew Arnold as "the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit " than this little treasury of his unstudied words to a friend; nor do they serve to establish anything... | |
 | 1902 - 222 pages
...surprise in this case is gratifying. "Emerson is the same as Marcus Aurelius," says Arnold; "he is the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit." His doctrines apply universally to mankind—his belief in character, in self-reliance, in a higher... | |
 | 1890 - 596 pages
...will be disappointed in Emerson if you look for these things in him. Emerson says Mr. Arnold, is " the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit," and he is that in treating even of such a subject as history. He sees more deeply into the spiritual... | |
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Aurelius is not a great writer, a great philosophy-maker ; he is the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit. 
