 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pages
...Moses, Plato, and Milton, is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men said but what they thought. A man should learn to detect...flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages." " Kingdom and lordship, power and estate, are a gaudier... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pages
...Moses, Plato, and Milton, is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men said but what they thought. A man should learn to detect...flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages." " Kingdom and lordship, power and estate, are a gaudier... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pages
...Moses, Plato, and Milton, is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men said but what they thought. A man should learn to detect...flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages." " Kingdom and lordship, power and estate, are a gaudier... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they . thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that 15 gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament2... | |
 | Henry Guy Walters - 1907 - 116 pages
...convicMateriai tion and it shall be the unitantheism. versal sense." Self-reliance (op. nit p. 1.) "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across Science and Health (op. cit. p. 587 "The belief that Infinite mind is in finite forms," is "mythology,"... | |
 | Frank Morton McMurry - 1909 - 348 pages
...thinking for us, and we will ever be suffering from the timidity that Emerson laments in the words : — A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...highest merit we ascribe to Moses,0 Plato,0 and Milton0 is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man...learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which 15 flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet... | |
 | 1911 - 796 pages
...declares, "we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back with a certain alienated majesty. ... A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...dismisses without notice his thought because it is his. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson than this." This is one of the curious things in the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato,2 and Milton3 is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man...flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firma- 15 ment4 of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because... | |
 | 1911 - 616 pages
...cause." On the first page of his essay on "Self-reliance," we have the following beautiful sentence: "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." This inwardness, this attitude of listening for the accents of the soul, is of the East. "You are,"... | |
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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. 
