A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. The Essay on Self-reliance - Page 2by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 51 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In o weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the...heard throughout nature though for cheap ends. Caratac Broader and deeper we must write our i more affecting lesson for us than this. annals, — from an... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
...the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humored inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else to-morrow... | |
| Lucy A. Chittenden - 1884 - 204 pages
...Bolts and bars are not the best of our institutions; nor is shrewdness in trade a mark of wisdom. 2. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty. Rule 23.— The clauses of a compound sentence, if they contain commas within... | |
| Lucy A. Chittenden - 1884 - 198 pages
...Bolts and bars are not the best of our institutions; nor is shrewdness in trade a mark of wisdom. 2. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with d sort of alienated majesty. -—, ^ Rule 23.—The clauses of a compound sentence, if they contain... | |
| 1885 - 736 pages
...Yet he dismisses without notice his thought because it is his. In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts ; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." And this brings us to the consideration of Emerson's own mental processes, and to the doctrine so generally... | |
| Lucy A. Chittenden - 1886 - 204 pages
...Bolts and bars are not the best of our institutions; nor is shrewdness in trade a mark of wisdom. 2. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us ivith a sort of alienated majesty. Rule 23. — The clauses of a compound sentence, if they contain... | |
| Lucy A. Chittenden - 1884 - 204 pages
...Bolts and bars are not the best of our institutions; nor is shrewdness in trade a mark of wisdom. 2. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty. Rule 23.—The clauses of a compound sentence, if they contain commas within... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts : they come back to us with...teach us to abide by our spontaneous impression with good-humoured inflexibility then most when the whole cry of voices is on the other side. Else, to-morrow,... | |
| 1915 - 464 pages
...and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of geaius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. — [RW Emerson. WI SMITH, PH. G. STRICTLY UNOFFICIAL Gum Arabic was spoken by the two old Arabs without... | |
| Virginia Waddy - 1889 - 432 pages
...is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude "; "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected...they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty "; "These little words are called particles merely in reference to the diminutive space they occupy;... | |
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