 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 pages
...to see that only by coming again to themselves, or to God in themselves, can they grow forevermore. It is a low benefit to give me something; it is a...mine to be and to grow. The injustice of the vulgar tone of preaching is not less flagrant to Jesus, than to the souls which it profanes. The preachers... | |
 | David B. Parke - 1957 - 180 pages
...being. Already the long shadows of untimely oblivion creep over me, and I shall decease forever. . . . The time is coming when all men will see that the...invites thine and mine to be and to grow. . . . The second defect of the traditionary and limited way of using the mind of Christ, is a consequence of... | |
 | Conrad Wright - 1986 - 164 pages
...to see that only by coming again to themselves, or to God in themselves, can they grow forevermore. It is a low benefit to give me something; it is a...mine to be and to grow. The injustice of the vulgar tone of preaching is not less flagrant to Jesus, than to the souls which it profanes. The preachers... | |
 | Jonathan Levin - 1999 - 244 pages
...monopolized" (EL 81). Jesus should provoke us to constitute virtue and truth: "It is a low benef1t to give me something; it is a high benefit to enable...that so invites thine and mine to be and to grow" (EL 82). Emerson suggests here that even goodness becomes an exclusive tool, allowing false and decadent... | |
 | Sydney E. Ahlstrom - 2003 - 636 pages
...us." [Ed.] only by coming again to themselves, or to God in themselves, can they grow forevermore. It is a low benefit to give me something; it is a...mine to be and to grow. The injustice of the vulgar tone of preaching is not less flagrant to Jesus, than to the souls which it profanes. The preachers... | |
 | Thomas Shepherd - 2004 - 183 pages
...being. Already the long shadows of untimely oblivion creep over me, and I shall decease forever. . . The time is coming when all men will see, that the...mine, and that so invites thine and mine to be and grow. It is apparent from even a cursory reading of Emerson's talk that he was decades ahead of his... | |
 | Hermann Deuser - 2004 - 368 pages
...kurzgefaßt in der „Harvard-Divinity-School-Address" von 1838, in: EMERSON (1950), 64-84; 76. 26 Ibid. 74: „The time is coming when all men will see that the...excluding sanctity, but a sweet, natural goodness like thine and mine, and that so invites thine and mine to be and to grow." - Ibid. 73: „The soul... | |
 | Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 pages
...to see that only by coming again to themselves, or to God in themselves, can they grow forevermore. It is a low benefit to give me something; it is a...mine to be and to grow. The injustice of the vulgar tone of preaching is not less flagrant to Jesus, than to the souls which it profanes. The preachers... | |
 | 1890 - 1252 pages
...whole company would suddenly arise before the dower and serenade it by singing an ode from I lali/.. IT is a low benefit to give me something; it is a...high benefit to enable me to do somewhat of myself. — Emerson. TRUTH is simple and will not be antique ; is ever present, and insists on being of this... | |
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It is a low benefit to give me something ; it is a high benefit to enable me to do somewhat of myself. The time is coming when all men will see that the gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting, overpowering, excluding sanctity, but a sweet, natural... 
