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" Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely... "
The Water Cure Journal and Hygienic Magazine - Page 76
1848
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The Heart of Oak Books, Volume 6

Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 pages
...of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age ; betraying their perception that the Eternal...And we are now men, and must accept in the highest spirit the same transcendent destiny; and not pinched in a corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution,...
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Discourses in America

Matthew Arnold - 1896 - 236 pages
...of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age ; betraying their perception that the Eternal...all their being. And we are now men, and must accept |l in the highest spirit the same transcendent destiny ; and not pinched in a corner, not cowards fleeing...
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Literary Interpretations, Or, A Guide to the Teaching and Reading of ...

1896 - 234 pages
...childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before...
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Selections from the Prose Writings of Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 460 pages
...30 events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age ; betraying their perception that the Eternal...And we are now men, and must accept in the highest spirit the same tran5 scendent destiny ; and not pinched in a corner, not cowards fleeing before a...
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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 13

Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 482 pages
...childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before...
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Essays on Burns

Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 180 pages
...found for you. Great men have always done so and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age ; betraying their perception that the Eternal...through their hands, predominating in all their being.' These were the voices of which Arnold speaks in his essay on Emerson. He says : ' Forty years ago,...
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Essay on Burns

Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 176 pages
...found for you. Great men have always done so and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age ; betraying their perception that the Eternal...through their hands, predominating in all their being.' These were the voices of which Arnold speaks in his essay on Emerson. He says : ' Forty years ago,...
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Lessons in Grammar for Schools and Teachers' Institutes

James N. Patrick - 1898 - 238 pages
...childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before...
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Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before...
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The Old South Leaflets

Edwin Doak Mead - 1899 - 758 pages
...Providence assigned them. Sir, the words are yours which I quote. You have told your people that they are now men, and must accept, in the highest mind, the same destiny, — that they are not minors and invalids in a protected corner, but guides, redeemers, and...
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