 Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely...  Essays, orations and lectures - Page 27by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 385 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
...childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers... | |
 | 1884 - 506 pages
...themselves childlike to the genius of their age ; betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...And we are now men, and must accept in the highest spirit the same transcendent destiny ; and not pinched in a corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1885 - 234 pages
...in all their being. And we are now men, and must accept in the highest spirit the same transcercdent destiny ; and not pinched in a corner, not cowards...let us advance and advance on chaos and the dark!' These lofty sentences of Emerson, and a hundred others of like strain, I never have lost out of my... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers,... | |
 | 1890 - 596 pages
...childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pages
...childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent 1 Image. ,2 " Proportionate," etc., ie, of correct proportions and of good results, so long as. destiny... | |
 | 1894 - 596 pages
...themselves childlike to the genius oi their age, betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...but redeemers and benefactors, pious aspirants to the noble clay under the Almighty effort let us advance on Chaos and the Dark." . Some of our barnacles,... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton, George Henry Browne - 1895 - 392 pages
...themselves childlike to the genius of their age ; betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...And we are now men, and must accept in the highest spirit the same transcendent destiny; and not pinched in a corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution,... | |
 | 1896 - 234 pages
...childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1896 - 236 pages
...themselves childlike to the genius of their age ; betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...all their being. And we are now men, and must accept |l in the highest spirit the same transcendent destiny ; and not pinched in a corner, not cowards fleeing... | |
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