 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...too lives with nature in the present, above time. This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong 10 intellects dare not yet hear God himself unless he...like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames1 and tutors, and, 15 as they grow older, of the men of talents and character they chance... | |
 | 1860 - 708 pages
...better than the child, into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?" stream; My thirst was qnench'd, my soul reviv'd, And...voice of Jesus say, I am this dark world's light ; value on a few texts, on a few lives. We are like children, who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames... | |
 | Richard Dimsdale Stocker - 1907 - 46 pages
...only so many fragments of the soul, and by affinity we incorporate these in our own consciousness. " We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts, or a few lives." The only use of tradition is to perpetuate the everlasting remembrance of those lofty... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 496 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,... | |
 | 1909 - 540 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 - 1911 - 632 pages
...Reliance." Sentences not there given are retained. 1838] THE SOUL'S GRATITUDE 137 the sound. Be assured we shall not always set so great a price on a few texts, on a few lives.1 . . . November 14. This palsy of tradition goes so far that when a soul in which the intellectual... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...lives with nature in the present, above time. 24. This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong 25 intellects dare not yet hear God himself, unless he speak the phraseology of I know not what David,0 or Jeremiah,0 or Paul.0 We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts,0 on a few... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...nature in the present, above time.3 This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects 25 dare not yet hear God himself, unless he speak the...and, as they grow older, of the men of talents and 30 character they chance to see, — painfully recollecting the exact words they spoke ; afterwards,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 196 pages
...common nature. That third party or common nature is not social; it is impersonal, is God. The Over Soul. 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 - 1911 - 616 pages
...occupies most of p. 66, of "Self- Reliance." Sentences not there given are retained. the sound. Be assured we shall not always set so great a price on a few texts, on a few lives.' . . . November 14. This palsy of tradition goes so far that when a soul in which the intellectual activity... | |
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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. 
