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 - 1902 - 206 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...And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind^he same transcendent destin}- ; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards... | |
| 1902 - 510 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... | |
| 1902 - 512 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... | |
| Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 476 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 - 1903 - 478 pages
...genius of their age, betray- « ing their perception that the absolutely trustwor- • thy was seated at their heart, working through • their hands, predominating...highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not minors and invalids in a protected cor- «~Ti ner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but I guides,... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1903 - 404 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,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 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... | |
| 1905 - 778 pages
...confided themselves to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...effort, let us advance and advance on Chaos and the Dark.—Emerson. A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves a constant... | |
| Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 460 pages
...hands, predominating in all their being. And we are now men, and must accept in the highest spirit the same transcendent destiny; and not pinched in...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... | |
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