 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 pages
..."Self-Reliance," Emerson proposes as the "highest merit" ascribable to "Moses, Plato, and Milton," that they "set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they [themselves] thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across... | |
 | Ellwood Johnson - 2005 - 300 pages
...of Europe." "Self-Reliance" is introduced with the assertion that great men (Moses, Plato, Milton) "set at naught books 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,... | |
 | Bobbi Zemo - 2006 - 249 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,... | |
 | Al Smith - 2007 - 464 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,... | |
 | Al Smith - 2007 - 464 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,... | |
 | Aliki Barnstone - 2006 - 220 pages
...imitates the precepts in Emerson's "Self- Reliance": 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,... | |
 | Tom Walsh - 2007 - 200 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,... | |
 | Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 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,... | |
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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. 
