 When I watch that flowing river, which, out of regions I see not, pours for a season its streams into me, I see that I am a pensioner; not a cause, but a surprised spectator of this ethereal water; that I desire and look up, and put myself in the attitude...  Albany Review - Page 4091907Full view - About this book
 | William Henry Fish - 1913 - 220 pages
...me, I see that I am a pensioner; not a cause, but a surprised spectator of the ethereal water that I desire, and look up, and put myself in the attitude...reception, but from some alien energy the visions come." Emerson speaks of the soul's highest experience as a " revelation," " an influx of the divine mind... | |
 | Charles Frederick Holder - 1913 - 726 pages
...surrender to divine influence," then George Fox was an English mystic. Emerson says in one of his essays : "I desire and look up and put myself in the attitude of reception." I recall my youth in a notable New England Friends community established by Christopher Holder in 1656-7.... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1916 - 760 pages
...me, I see that I am a pensioner; not a cause, but a surprised spectator of this ethereal water; that I desire and look up, and put myself in the attitude...reception, but from some alien energy the visions come. The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present, and the only prophet of that which must... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1916 - 798 pages
...me, I see that I am a pensioner; not a cause, but a surprised spectator of this ethereal water; that I desire and look up, and put myself in the attitude...reception, but from some alien energy the visions come. The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present, and the only prophet of that which must... | |
 | Henry David Gray - 1917 - 130 pages
...me, I see that I am a pensioner ; not a cause but a surprised spectator of this ethereal water; that I desire and look up and put myself in the attitude...reception, but from some alien energy the visions come" (II, 252). This contradiction must be resolved before we can go further. If the individual soul creates... | |
 | Henry David Gray - 1917 - 124 pages
...; not a cause but a surprised spectator of this ethereal water; that I desire and look up and _p_ut myself in the attitude of reception, but from some alien energy the visions come" (II, 252). This -contradiction must be resolved before we can go further. If the individual soul creates... | |
 | Augustine Matthias Bellwald - 1922 - 300 pages
...I see that I am a pensioner — not a cause, but a surprised spectator of this ethereal water; that I desire and look up, and put myself in the attitude...reception, but from some alien energy the visions come." 1 "We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...me, I see that I am a pensioner; not a cause but a surprised spectator of this ethereal water; that o political parties are its two opposite halves, —...sometimes split into quarters, it may be, which grind on The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present, and the only prophet of that which must... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 pages
...I see that I am a pensioner ; not a cause, but a surprised spectator of this ethereal water ; that I desire and look up, and put myself in the attitude...reception, but from some alien energy the visions come. The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past and the present, and the only prophet of that which must... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...me, I see that I am a pensioner; ot a cause but a surprised spectator of this ethereal water ; lat I desire and look up and put myself in the attitude of :ception, but from some alien energy the visions come. The Supreme Critic on the errors of the past... | |
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