 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 - 1921 - 584 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 of virtue as they... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...principles, by the law of nature must overwer and ride all cities, nations, kings, rich men, poets, who e not. This is the ultimate fact which we so quickly reach on is, as on every topic, the resolution of all into the everessed ONE. Self-existence is the attribute... | |
 | University of North Dakota - 1917 - 414 pages
...soldiers. The rugged battles of fate, where strength is born, we shun. We do not see that virtue is height and that a man or a company of men plastic...cities, nations, kings, rich men, poets, who are not. And in these words Emerson voices the belief which is the inspiration of social thought today: We think... | |
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