In your metaphysies you have denied personality to the Deity : yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot,... Essays: First series - Page 52by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 343 pagesFull view - About this book
| Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 544 pages
...1 Essays, Vol. I., p. 50. than his own speculations!, says to bis disciples, " In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity ; yet when...the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them In-art and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph his... | |
| Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1873 - 860 pages
...spending years of time or chests ol' money— but In spending them off the line of your career. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored...consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. Tno same correspondence that is between thirst in the stoujacu, and water in the spring, exists between... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity, yet when...life, though they should clothe God with shape and color.1 Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and flee. A foolish consistency... | |
| Joseph Cook - 1877 - 370 pages
...his position as a fixed individualist and a wavering pantheist as this : — " In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity ; yet, when...Joseph his coat, in the hand of the harlot, and flee " (EMEBSON, Essays, vol. ip £0). Whoever would come to the point of view from which all Emerson's... | |
| Joseph Cook - 1877 - 360 pages
...his position as a fixed individualist and a wavering pantheist as this : — " In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity ; yet, when...your theory, as Joseph his coat, in the hand of the har'ot, and flee " (EMERSON, Essays, vol. ip 50). Whoever would come to the point of view from which... | |
| Andrew Jackson Davis - 1877 - 180 pages
...past for judgment into the thousandeyed presents, and live ever in a new day. In your metaphysics, you have denied personality to the Deity ; yet, when...with shape and color. Leave your theory, as Joseph did his coat in the house of the harlot, and flee. "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little... | |
| Joseph Cook - 1877 - 138 pages
...his position as a fixed individualist and a wavering pantheist as this : — " In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity ; yet, when...life, though they should clothe God with shape and colour. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat, in the hand of the harlot, and nee."f Whoever would... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 304 pages
...the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day. In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity : yet when...philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul lias simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you... | |
| William Mackintire Salter - 1879 - 64 pages
...indeed deny our impulses or refuse to allow the natural forms which they create. " In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity ; yet when...though they should clothe God with shape and color."* Yet we may not make of this temporary result of impulse a permanent element in our creed; the intellect... | |
| Joseph Cook - 1879 - 176 pages
...his position as a fixed individualist and a wavering pantheist as this : — " In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity ; yet, when...life, though they should clothe God with shape and colour. Leave your theory, as Joseph his coat in the hand of the harlot, and tiee."2 Whoever would... | |
| |