When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn. Essays - Page 69by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 371 pagesFull view - About this book
| Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...lives with nature in the present, above time. And now at last the highest truth on this subject 3fi5 remains unsaid ; probably cannot be said ; for all...far-off remembering of the intuition. That thought by which I can now nearest approach to say it is this. When good is near you, when you have life in yourself,... | |
| Adeline Margaret Teskey - 1901 - 294 pages
...seemed to me the next breeze brought on its wings the message of the Concord sage : " When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn." OUK WHITE-HAIRED BOY. OUR WHITE-HAIRED BOY. I LESSED be childhood for the good that it does, and for... | |
| Alfred Taylor Schofield - 1901 - 264 pages
...not only happy, but beautiful. " When a man," says Emerson, " lives with God, his voice (character) shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn. He will weave no longer a spotted life of shreds and patches, but he will live with a Divine unity.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 pages
...perception, we shall gladly disburthen the memory of its hoarded treasures as old rubbish. When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur...probably, cannot be said; for all that we say is the far off remembering of the intuition. That thought, by what I can now nearest approach to say it, is... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 110 pages
...a knot of roots, whose flower and fruitage is the world. History iflarrlj cU-lirn YyHEN a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn. Harrrf ttorlbr T"\EAL so plainly with man and woman as to constrain the utmost sincerity and destroy... | |
| Adams Sherman Hill - 1902 - 568 pages
...perception, we shall gladly disburden the memory of its hoarded treasures as old rubbish. When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn. A Barbarism is a word or a phrase that is not now in good English use. Such a word is "afeard" for... | |
| Paul Elmer More - 1904 - 272 pages
...speaks with an absolute and undeceived sincerity. We remember his confession, that "when a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn," and it is with him as When the harmony of heaven Soundeth the measures of a lively faith. Upon the reader,... | |
| Paul Elmer More - 1904 - 490 pages
...speaks with an absolute and undeceived sincerity. We remember his confession, that "when a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn," and it is with him as When the harmony of heaven Sonndeth the measures of a lively faith. Upon the reader,... | |
| Sarah E. Sprague - 1904 - 268 pages
...believers in great men. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. AVhen a man lives with God his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn. Personal force never goes out of fashion. A divine person is the prophecy of the mind ; a friend is... | |
| Sarah Knowles Bolton - 1904 - 58 pages
...never lead unless you lift," and Emerson always lifted. "When a man lives with God, his voice shall be sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn. ... Do not rely on heavenly favor, or on compassion to folly, or on prudence, on common-sense, the... | |
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