 Height, and that a man or a company of men, plastic and permeable to principles, by the law of nature must overpower and ride all cities, nations, kings, rich men, poets, who are not.  Essays - Page 61by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 356 pages
...of spirits. We fancy it rhetoric when we speak of eminent virtue. We do not yet see that virtue is Height, and that a man or a company of men, plastic...topic, the resolution of all into the ever-blessed ONE. Self -existence is the attribute of the Supreme Cause, and it constitutes the measure of good by the... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 588 pages
...it would be for most graduates at Andover or Cambridge." We read in his essay, "Self -Reliance:" — "This is the ultimate fact which we so quickly reach...topic, the resolution of all into the ever-blessed ONE. Self -existence is the attribute of the Supreme Cause, and it constitutes the measure of good by the... | |
 | 1884 - 668 pages
...perceives the selfexistence of truth and right, and calms itself with knowing that all things go well. This is the ultimate fact which we so quickly reach on this as on every topic, the resolution of the all into the everblessed One. This being Emerson's most patient and strenuous effort to explain... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 pages
...like facility. We fancy it rhetoric when we speak of eminent virtue. We do not yet see that virtue is Height, and that a man or a company of men plastic...as on every topic, the resolution of all Into the ever blessed ONE. Virtue is the governor, the creator, the reality. All things real are so by so much... | |
 | James Thomson - 1892 - 300 pages
...richer with that dream than the fee of a county could make him." " We do not yet see that virtue is Height, and that a man or a company of men, plastic...cities, nations, kings, rich men, poets, who are not." A word more. Some readers may have been prejudiced against Emerson by the attacks of Kingsley. It is... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 598 pages
...would be for most graduates at Andover or Cambridge." We read in his essay, " Self -Reliance : " — "This is the ultimate fact which we so quickly reach...topic, the resolution of all into the ever-blessed ONE. Self -existence is the attribute of the Supreme Cause, and it constitutes the measure of good by the... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 pages
...it would be for most graduates at Andover or Cambridge. " We read in his essay, " Self-Reliance:"— "This is the ultimate fact which we so quickly reach...topic, the resolution of all into the ever-blessed OXE. Self-existence is the attribute of the Supreme Cause, and it constitutes the measure of good by... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 608 pages
...would be for most graduates at Andover or Cambridge." We read in his essay, " Self -Reliance : " — "This is the ultimate fact which we so quickly reach...topic, the resolution of all into the ever-blessed OXE. Self-existence is the attribute of the Supreme Cause, and it constitutes the measure of good by... | |
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