| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...chance that no one has seen it before me. For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun. 22. The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are...pure that it is profane to seek to interpose helps. It must be that when God speaketh, he should communicate not one thing, but all things ; should fill... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...may chance that no one has seen it before me. For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun. The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are...pure that it is profane to seek to interpose helps. It must be that when God speak eth, he should communicate not one thing, but all things ; should fill... | |
| 1848 - 614 pages
...Suppose they were virtuous : ,did they wear out virtue'?" And in a more sublime mood he proceeds : " Whenever a mind is simple, and receives a divine wisdom,...pass away, — means, teachers, texts, temples fall. Whence, then, this worship of the past ? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and majesty... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...may chance that no one has seen it before me. For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun. The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are...pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps. It must be that when God speaketh he should communicate, not one thing, but all things ; should fill... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...may chance that no one has seen it before me. For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun. The relations of the soul to the Divine Spirit are...pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose helps. It must be that when God speaketh, he should communicate not one thing, but all things; should fill... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 pages
...Suppose they were virtuous : did they wear out virtue?" And in a more sublime mood he proceeds : " Whenever a mind is simple, and receives a divine wisdom,...pass away, — means, teachers, texts, temples fall. Whence, then, this worship of the past ? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and majesty... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...may chance that no one has seen it before me. For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun. The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are so pure that it is prof.ne to seek to interpose helps. It must be that when God speaketh, he should communicate not one... | |
| 1848 - 636 pages
...Suppose they were virtuous ; did they wear out virtue ?" And in a more sublime mood he proceeds : " Whenever a mind is simple, and receives a divine wisdom, then old things pasa away — means, teachers, texts, temples fall. Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...may chance that no one has seen it before me. For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun. The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are...pure that it is profane to seek to interpose helps. It must be that when God speaketh, he should communicate not one thing, but all things ; should fill... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...may chance that no one has seen it before me. For my perception of it is as much a fact as the sun. The relations of the soul to the divine spirit are...pure that it is profane to seek to interpose helps. It must be that when God speaketh, he should communicate not one thing, but all things ; should fill... | |
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