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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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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 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, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 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...so great a price on a few texts, on a few lives. We arc like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors, and, as they grow older,...
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Essays: First series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 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...so great a price on a few texts, on a few lives. We arc like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors, and, as they grow older,...
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Essays: First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 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...shall not always set so great a price on a few texts, ou a few lives. We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences of graudames and tutors, and,...
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Reason and Revelation: Being an Examination Into the Nature and Contents of ...

William Horne - 1876 - 424 pages
...relation to it. Emerson speaks strongly, but we think not without some occasion, when he exclaims, " See what strong intellects dare not yet hear God Himself, unless He speak in the phraseology of I know not what David or Jeremiah or Paul. We shall not always set so great price...
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Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. , but can entertain themselves very grandames and tutors, and, as they grow older, of the men of talents and character they chance to sec,...
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Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 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 grandames and tutors, and, as tliey grow older, of the men of talents and character they chance to...
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Complete Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 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...on a few lives. We are like children who repeat by rota the sentences of grandames and tutors, and, as they grow older, of the men of talents and character...
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Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed, Volume 2

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
...the future. lie 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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Scribner's Magazine ..., Volume 43

1908 - 1006 pages
..."yes, I see, Max O'Reiley! Max O'Reiley!"— As Emerson says, th:re are "strong intellects who dare not hear God himself unless he speak the phraseology of...know not what David, or Jeremiah, or Paul. — We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors, and, as they grow older,...
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