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
| 1896 - 374 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 ride 2 all cities, nations, kings, rich men, poets, who are not. This is the ultimate fact which we so quickly... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...spirits. We fancy it rhetoric 63 •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 and gerrneable to principles, by the law of nature mus!f overpower and ride al! cities, nations, kings,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 64 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...cities, nations, kings, rich men, poets, who are not. C.This is the ultimate fact which we so quickly reach on this as on every topic, the resolution of... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 70 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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 200 pages
...is the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual. 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. BELIEF and love-a believing we love will relieve us of a vast load of care. O my brothers, God exists!... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pages
...virtue of obedience to this law great men are great, and only so: " 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 true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things. Where he is, there is... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pages
...virtue of obedience to this law great men are great, and only so: "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 true man belongs to no other time or place, but is the center of things. Where he is, there is... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 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 ride 3 all cities, nations, kings, rich men, 15 poets, who are not.4 This is the ultimate fact which we... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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