 | 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 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 - 1983 - 1196 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,... | |
 | P. Adams Sitney - 1990 - 284 pages
...rose is a hyperbole of the immunity from history the self-reliant man must develop. Emerson continues: This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects...he speak the phraseology of I know not what David, Jeremiah, or Paul ... If we live truly, we shall see truly.14 His argument contends with the influence... | |
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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. 
