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" 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 61
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 333 pages
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Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 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...
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Literary Reviews and Criticisms

Prosser Hall Frye - 1908 - 334 pages
...succeeded in appropriating ; and as far as it goes it is very like. "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." Undoubtedly Emerson wrote the passage ; but all the same it is Whitman to a T. The "plastic and permeable...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 5

1909 - 540 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...topic, the resolution of all into the everblessed ONE. Virtue is the governor, the creator, the reality. All things real are so by so much virtue as they...
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Essays and English Traits

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 496 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...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 virtue as they...
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Select Essays and Addresses: Including The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...spirits. We fancy it rhetoric, 10 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...cities, nations, kings, rich men, poets, who are not. 15 27. This is the ultimate fact which we so quickly reach on this, as on every topic, the resolution...
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An American Bible

Alice Hubbard - 1911 - 462 pages
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The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation,

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 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...principles, by the law of nature must overpower and 10 ride 2 all cities, nations, kings, rich men, poets, who are not. This is the ultimate fact which...
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Emerson's Essays on Manners, Self-reliance, Compensation, Nature, Friendship

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...facility. We fancy it rhetoric when we speak of eminent virtue. We do not 5 yet see that virtue is Height, and that a man or a company of men, plastic...is the ultimate fact which we so quickly reach on 10 this, as on every topic, the resolution of all into the everblessed ONE. Virtue is the governor,...
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An American Bible

Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 pages
...are not. <I Since we are all so stupid, what benefit that there should be two stupidities! s» s» THIS is the ultimate fact which we so quickly reach...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 of virtue as they...
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Types of the Essay

Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 416 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...topic, the resolution of all into the everblessed ONE. Virtue is the governor, the creator, the reality. All things real are so by so much virtue as they...
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