 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 388 pages
...vaticination of the niind is entitled to a certain respeet, and we learn to prefer imperfeet theorics, and sentences which contain glimpses of truth, to...have 'no one valuable suggestion. A wise writer will fcel that the ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing uudiseovcred regions of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 398 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 - 1876 - 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 to a certain respect, and we leara to prefer imperfect theories, and sentences, which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 410 pages
...of science, we accept tho sentence of Plato, that " poetry comea nearer to vital _trnth_ _ history." Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and wo learn to prefer imperfect theories, and sentences, which contain glimpses of truth, to digested... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 386 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 - 1892 - 656 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... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 288 pages
...pressure, the pressure of the moral genius. He says, speaking more for himself than for others : " We learn to prefer imperfect theories and sentences, which contain glimpses of the truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion." It would be almost impossible... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 290 pages
...great pressure, the pressure of the moral genius. He says, speaking more for himself than for others: "We learn to prefer imperfect theories and sentences, which contain glimpses of the truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion." It would be almost impossible... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 288 pages
...great pressure, the pressure of the moral genius. He says, speaking more for himself than for others: "We learn to prefer imperfect theories and sentences, which contain glimpses of the truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion." It would be almost impossible... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 290 pages
...great pressure, the pressure of the moral genius. He says, speaking more for himself than for others: "We learn to prefer imperfect theories and sentences, which contain glimpses of the truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion." It would be almost impossible... | |
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