The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables yet unbroken; The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak, or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind. One accent of the Holy Ghost The heedless world... Poems - Page 10by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1847 - 199 pagesFull view - About this book
| James Freeman Clarke - 1866 - 560 pages
...scriptures ; all that lasts is inspired. Perpetuity, not infallibility, is the sign of inspiration. " The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables...mind. One accent of the Holy Ghost The heedless world has never lost." The famous proof-text on this subject is that in the Second Epistle of Paul to Timothy:... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 1010 pages
...countless host. Trances the heurt through chanting choirs, And through the priest the mind inspires. The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables yet unbroken ; The word by seers or sibyb told. In groves of oak, or fanes of gold, Still floate upon the morning wind, Still whispers... | |
| James Freeman Clarke - 1866 - 540 pages
...scriptures ; all that lasts is in* spired. Perpetuity, not infallibility, is the sign of inspiration. " The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables yet unbroken; • Tbo word by seers or sibyls told In groves of oak or fanes of gold Still floats upon the morning... | |
| James Freeman Clarke - 1867 - 540 pages
...inspiration. " The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables yct unbroken; Tho word by Beers or sibyls told In groves of oak or fanes of gold Still...mind. One accent of the Holy Ghost The heedless world has never lost." The famous proof-text on this subject is that in the Second [Epistle of Paul to Timothy... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1867 - 412 pages
...and still wanders crying for lack of meat. How mankind loves the truth ! We will not let it go ; " One accent of the Holy Ghost The heedless world hath, never lost ; " so native is it to the mind of man. Look on the power of a special truth, a great idea ; view it... | |
| George Philip R. Pulman - 1869 - 152 pages
...heart through chanting quires, And through the priest the mind inspires. And still the word by seers told In groves of oak, or fanes of gold, Still floats...morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind. The sight of the old oaks in their livery of green, interspersed with the mountain ash, crowned with... | |
| Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends (1853-1940) - 1873 - 860 pages
...never cease until the last man is born. "The word by saints or sybils told lu groves of oak or panes of gold Still floats upon the morning wind S%till...the Holy Ghost The heedless world hath never lost. " MR. FORBES was followed by the REV. MR. HUSSEY who said : — Mr. Chairman and Friends ; I want to... | |
| 1873 - 354 pages
...nobler planes of thought and actions. " The word unto the prophets spoken Was writ on the tables vet unbroken : The word by seers or sibyls told In groves of oak or fanes of gold Still floats upou the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind. One accent of the Holy Ghost The heedless... | |
| Mary Wilder Tileston - 1874 - 200 pages
...countless host, Trances the heart through chanting choirs, And through the priest the mind inspires. The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables...the Holy Ghost The heedless world hath never lost RW EMRRSON. "THALATTA!" CRY OF THB TBN THOUSAND. I" STAND upon the summit of my years. -*- Behind,... | |
| James Martineau - 1874 - 786 pages
...Like the volcano's tongue of flame, Up from the burning core below, The canticles of love and woe. 2 The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tables yet unbroken; Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind: One accent of the Holy Ghost... | |
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