 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 pages
...conviction and it shall be the universal sense; for always the inmost becomes the outmost,—and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of...traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they, thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 178 pages
...conviction and it shall be the universal sense; for always the inmost becomes the outmost, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of...traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. JANUARY 5. —SELF-RELIANCE. The world globes itself in a drop of dew. The microscope cannot find the... | |
 | Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne - 1899 - 522 pages
...characteristic of Emerson. " Think for yourself," he says again and again. " Believe your own thought." " The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and...and spoke, not what men, but what they, thought." In 1841 the first volume of the " Essays " appeared, followed by the second in 1844. In these two volumes... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1902 - 404 pages
...of this belief in one's own thought in a passage that every pupil ought to commit to memory: — " The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and...naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men thought but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1902 - 410 pages
...of this belief in one's own thought in a passage that every pupil ought to commit to memory: — " The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and...naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men thought but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1902 - 408 pages
...of this belief in one's own thought in a passage that every pupil ought to commit to memory: — " The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and...naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men thought but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1902 - 408 pages
...of this belief in one's own thought in a passage that every pupil ought to commit to memory: — " The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and...naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men thought but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 478 pages
...and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of...traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within,... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 508 pages
...it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of...traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within,... | |
 | Glen Arnold Grove - 1904 - 430 pages
...probably desire to know; avoid details; be straightforward and courteous, the outmost, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton, is that they set at naught books and traditions,... | |
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thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what... 
