Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being. Essays and Poems of Emerson - Page 151by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 525 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 pages
...childlike, to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution ; but guides and... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated Only these ejaculations of the soul are uttered one...long intervals, and it takes millenniums to make a minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 pages
...childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 352 pages
...childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 pages
...childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being. And we are now men, and mustjaccept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not minors and invalids in a protected... | |
| 1884 - 506 pages
...hands, predominating in all their being. And we are now men, and must accept in the highest spirit the same transcendent destiny ; and not pinched in...effort, let us advance and advance on chaos and the dark ! " These lofty sentences of Emerson, and a hundred others of like strain, I never have lost out of... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
...childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers... | |
| Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1884 - 524 pages
...so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their ag'e; betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through...And we are now men, and must accept in the highest spirit the same transcendent destiny ; and not pinched in a corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution,... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1885 - 234 pages
...in all their being. And we are now men, and must accept in the highest spirit the same transcercdent destiny ; and not pinched in a corner, not cowards...let us advance and advance on chaos and the dark!' These lofty sentences of Emerson, and a hundred others of like strain, I never have lost out of my... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers,... | |
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