 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 pages
...rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and...traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man should learn to 46 detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within,... | |
 | 1899 - 828 pages
...quote again from Emerson in his essay on Self Reliance: "Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton is that they set at nought books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought." With notable exceptions,... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...the outmost, and our iirst thought is 10 rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and...traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of i", light which flashes across his mind from within... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 pages
...rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton...traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man should learn to~3etect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 554 pages
...rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and...traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within,... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1901 - 226 pages
...can exist without it." " The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton," says Emerson, " is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men thought, but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 pages
...rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and...traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they, thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within,... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1902 - 410 pages
...of this belief in one's own thought in a passage that every pupil ought to commit to memory : — " The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and...naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men thought but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 476 pages
...rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and...traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 460 pages
...rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton...traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within,... | |
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Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. 
