 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
 | Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 460 pages
...all their being. And we are now men, and must accept in the highest spirit the same tran5 scendent destiny ; and not pinched in a corner, not cowards...effort, let us advance and advance on chaos and the dark ! " These lofty sen10 tences of Emerson, and a hundred others of like strain, I never have lost out... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 482 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 - 1897 - 464 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 tran5 scendent destiny ; and not pinched in a corner, not cowards fleeing before a... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 176 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 in all their being.' These were the voices of which Arnold speaks in his essay on Emerson. He says : ' Forty years ago,... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 180 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 in all their being.' These were the voices of which Arnold speaks in his essay on Emerson. He says : ' Forty years ago,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 144 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...let us advance and advance on Chaos and the Dark. 4. What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text in the face and behavior of children, babes, and... | |
 | James N. Patrick - 1898 - 238 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 - 1899 - 380 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... | |
 | Edwin Doak Mead - 1899 - 758 pages
...Providence assigned them. Sir, the words are yours which I quote. You have told your people that they are now men, and must accept, in the highest mind, the same destiny, — that they are not minors and invalids in a protected corner, but guides, redeemers, and... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through 55 their hands, predominating in all their being. And...highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers,... | |
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