The soul gives itself alone, original and pure, to the Lonely, Original, and Pure, who, on that condition, gladly inhabits, leads, and speaks through it. Then is it glad, young and nimble. It is not wise, but it sees through all things. It is not called... Essays - Page 269by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Bissett Pratt - 1906 - 354 pages
...becomes God ; yet forever and ever the influx of this better and universal self is new and unsearchable." "The soul gives itself alone, original, and pure,...Then is it glad, young, and nimble. It is not wise, but it sees through all things. It is not religious, but it is innocent. It calls the light its own,... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pages
...of third persons. It is of no use to preach to me from without. I can do that too easily myself." " The soul gives itself alone, original, and pure, to...gladly inhabits, leads, and speaks through it. Then it is glad, young, and nimble. It is not wise, but it sees through all things. It is not called religious,... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pages
...of third persons. It is of no use to preach to me from without. I can do that too easily myself." " The soul gives itself alone, original, and pure, to...gladly inhabits, leads, and speaks through it. Then it is glad, young, and nimble. It is not wise, but it sees through all things. It is not called religious,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 pages
...and demigods whom history worships we are constrained to accept with a grain of allowance. Though in our lonely hours we draw a new strength out of their...Then is it glad, young, and nimble. It is not wise, but it sees through all things. It is not called religious, but it is innocent. It calls the light... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 636 pages
...and demigods whom history worships we are constrained to accept with a grain of allowance. Though in our lonely hours we draw a new strength out of their...Then is it glad, young and nimble. It is not wise, but it sees through all things. It is not called religious, but it is innocent. It calls the light... | |
| 1909 - 540 pages
...and demigods whom history worships we are constrained to accept with a grain of allowance. Though in our lonely hours we draw a new strength out of their...Then is it glad, young and nimble. It is not wise, but it sees through all things. It is not called religious, but it is innocent. It calls the light... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 496 pages
...and demigods whom history worships we are constrained to accept with a grain of allowance. Though in our lonely hours we draw a new strength out of their...gives itself, alone, original and pure, to the Lonely, CS|%inal and Pure, who, on that condition, gladly inhabits, leads and speaks through it. Then is it... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 196 pages
...of man, all mere experience, all past biography, however spotless and sainted, shrinks away. . . . The soul gives itself alone, original, and pure, to...Then is it glad, young, and nimble. It is not wise, but it sees through all things. It is not called religious, but it is innocent. It calls the light... | |
| 1911 - 540 pages
...revelation of all nature and all thought to his heart; this namely, that the Highest dwells with him." "The soul gives itself, alone, original, and pure,...condition gladly inhabits, leads, and speaks through it." Perhaps the most explicit statement in all Emerson's writings on the nature of the relationship of... | |
| George Spring Merriam - 1911 - 362 pages
...divine. This supreme experience is perhaps best conveyed in a few passages of direct and simple prose. "The soul gives itself, alone, original, and pure,...condition, gladly inhabits, leads and speaks through it." And this, freshly given to us by his son (in the sketch prefacing the Centenary edition of his works)... | |
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