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" 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. "
The American Scholar: Self-reliance. Compensation - Page 60
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 108 pages
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Types of the Essay

Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 432 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,...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 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,...
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Essays and Poems of Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...nature in the present, above time. This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong in-fcS tellects dare not yet hear God himself, unless he speak the...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,...
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Literature and Life, Book 4

Edwin Greenlaw, William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1929 - 808 pages
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Adventures in Essay Reading: Essays Selected by the Department of Rhetoric ...

University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 460 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,...
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Selections from the Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 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,...
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Emerson's Essays and Poems: Selected and Edited with an Introd

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, aboVfi 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,...
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American Literature

Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 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 dare not yet hear God himself unless he speaks the phraseology of I know not what David, or Jeremiah, or Paul. We shall not always set so great...
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The Golden Day: A Study in American Experience and Culture

Lewis Mumford - 1926 - 296 pages
...life nourished Emersons? "We shall not always set so great a price," he exclaimed, "on a few texts, a few lives. We are 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,...
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A Book of American Literature

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 pages
...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 dare not yet hear God himself unless he spertk the ten ministers. Fear and hope are alike beneath it. There is somewhat low even in hope. In...
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