 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
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1919 - 512 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,... | |
 | Joseph Albert Mosher - 1920 - 308 pages
...childlike to the genius of their age, betraying the 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... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 422 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...highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but redeemers and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 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 - 1983 - 1196 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,... | |
 | Thomas Krusche - 1987 - 384 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." 136 "Spiritual Laws", p. 92. 137 Cf. Robinson, Apostle of Culture, p. 100. 138 CWl, pp. 135f. 139 Vorlesung... | |
 | Kerry C. Larson - 1988 - 300 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 in all their being" (W 2:47). Such confidence is fortified by the aegis of the "Universal Mind" or "Oversoul" that "lies... | |
 | Stanley Trachtenberg - 1993 - 138 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." It is also in the Emersonian tradition to exalt feeling over thought, intuition over logic, and to... | |
 | William Lad Sessions - 1994 - 324 pages
...imperturbability. Faith when achieved traying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny" (Emerson, 1957, 148). 103. What might Q be, according to the confidence model? One kind of possibility... | |
 | Robert J. Higgs - 1995 - 404 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 in all their being" (Selections 148). Emerson had a deep antipathy to both conformity and imitation, and his great men... | |
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