 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects...like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors, and as they grow older, of the men of talents and character they chance to see,—... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects...Jeremiah, or Paul. We shall not always set so great » price on a few texts, on a few lives. We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects...like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors, and, as they grow older, of the men of talents and character they chance to see,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects...like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors, and, as they grow older, of the men of talents and character they chance to see,... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1853 - 664 pages
...temples fall; all things are made sacred by relation to it —one thing as much as another. # * * * C{ Yet see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God...phraseology of I know not what David, or Jeremiah, or Paul. # * * * " If we live truly, we shall see truly. "When we have new perceptions, we shall gladly disburden... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1854 - 676 pages
...fall ; all things are made sacred by relation to it — one thing as much as another. * * # * " Yei see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself,...phraseology of I know not what David, or Jeremiah, or Paul. * . # * * / " If we live truly, we shall see truly. When we have new perceptions, we shall gladly disburden... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1858 - 702 pages
...tomplos fall ; all things are made sacred by relation to it — one thing as much as another. * * • * " Yet see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God...phraseology of I know not what David, or Jeremiah, or Paul. * * * * * " If we live truly, we shall see truly. When we have new perceptions, we shall gladly disburden... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...future. He cannot be happy and strong until y he too lives with nature in the present, above time. This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects...like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors, and, as they grow older, of the men of talents and character they chance to see,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...the future. He cannot bo happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects...like children who repeat by rote the sentences of graudames and tutors, and, as they grow older, of the men of talents and character they chance to see,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects...like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors, and, as they grow older, of the men of talents and character they chance to see,... | |
| |
Yet see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself, unless he speak the phraseology of I know not what David, or Jeremiah, or Paul. We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts, on a few lives. 
