If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are... Ralph Waldo Emerson: Philosopher and Poet - Page 309by Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 327 pagesFull view - About this book
| Minot Judson Savage - 1885 - 220 pages
...divine, they would do well to remember the lines which Emerson puts into the mouth of his Brahma, — "They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings." COMFORT AND HOPE. MY theme is " Comfort and Hope " as related to modern thought, and as to whether... | |
| Josiah Royce - 1885 - 516 pages
...in the text..books as commonplaces of logical analysis : — ! " They reckon ill that leave me ont ; When me they fly, I am the wings, I am the doubter nnd the doubt." — Everything finite we can doubt, but not the Infinite. I That eludes even our skepticism.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 380 pages
...IF the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot...They reckon ill who leave me out ; When me they fly, I-am the wings ; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. The strong gods... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 342 pages
...They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near ; The vanished gods to me appear ; And one to me are...they fly, I am the wings ; I am the doubter and the douht, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. The strong gods pine for my abode, And pine in vain the sacred... | |
| 1888 - 190 pages
...revelation, or to imagine that there is here a method of escape from the disabilities of natural reason. " They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings," the natural Eeason sings rebukingly to all who think they can climb up some other way than hers into... | |
| Charles Rockwell Lanman - 1890 - 94 pages
...Tf the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot...gods to me appear, And one to me are shame and fame. The strong gods pine for my abode, And pine in vain the sacred Seven ; But thou, meek lover of the... | |
| John Mackinnon Robertson - 1891 - 322 pages
...echoing the philosophy of ancient India, he comes almost within sight of a consistent Pantheism : — " They reckon ill who leave me out ; When me they fly, I am the wings ; / am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings." After the prose, certainly, Emersoniuns... | |
| 1906 - 560 pages
...think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. And further: They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings. Socialism, when sympathetically understood and broadly interpreted means, as we understand it, the... | |
| Brooklyn Ethical Association - 1892 - 584 pages
...and Agnostics, with a patient mind. For such religious teaching sings the song the Brahmin sings : " They reckon ill who leave me out ; When me they fly I am the wings." Show me the man who can teach astronomy, who can teach geology, who can teach biology, who can teach... | |
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