 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...  Discourses in America - Page 147by Matthew Arnold - 1896 - 207 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1922 - 360 pages
...connexion of events. Great men have always done so and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the Eternal was...through their hands, predominating in all their being." In his roving early days as teacher, printer, editor; reading his Dante and Shakespeare in a wood by... | |
 | William George Hoffman - 1923 - 312 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 was...And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards... | |
 | John Drinkwater - 1927 - 604 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...And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 444 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...And we are now men and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 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...And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 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...And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards... | |
 | Thomas Krusche - 1987 - 384 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 was...through their hands, predominating in all their being." 136 "Spiritual Laws", p. 92. 137 Cf. Robinson, Apostle of Culture, p. 100. 138 CWl, pp. 135f. 139 Vorlesung... | |
 | Kerry C. Larson - 1988 - 300 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 in all their being" (W 2:47). Such confidence is fortified by the aegis of the "Universal Mind" or "Oversoul" that "lies... | |
 | Stanley Trachtenberg - 1993 - 138 pages
...God-reliance: Great men have always done so and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the Eternal was...through their hands, predominating in all their being." It is also in the Emersonian tradition to exalt feeling over thought, intuition over logic, and to... | |
 | William Lad Sessions - 1994 - 324 pages
...imperturbability. Faith when achieved traying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny" (Emerson, 1957, 148). 103. What might Q be, according to the confidence... | |
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