 ... which each science has its own illustration. He complains that " he finds this part of learning very deficient, the profounder sort of wits drawing a bucket now and then for their own use, but the spring-head unvisited. This was the dry light which...  The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 241by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904Full view - About this book
 | Plato, Henry Cary - 1882 - 590 pages
...appears, with good reason, to have been the most perfect of all men in rhetoric. Phce. How so ? Socr. All the great arts require a subtle and speculative research into the law of nature; for that loftiness of thought and perfect mastery over every subject seem to be derived from some such... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...spring-head unvisited. This was the dry light which did scorch and offend most men's watery natures." miserable ; and then urged from reason and from Scripture...offence appeared to bo taken by the congregation at чгаe such source as this. This Pericles had, in addition to a great natural genius. For, meeting... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 308 pages
...spring-head unvisited. This was the dry light which did scorch and offend most men's watery natures." Plato had signified the same sense, when he said "...this kind, he attached himself to him, and nourished nimself with sublime speculations on the absolute intelligence ; and imported thence into the oratorical... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 320 pages
...spring-head unvisited. This was the dry light which did scorch and offend most men's watery natures." Plato had signified the same sense, when he said "...this kind, he attached himself to him, and nourished nimself with sublime speculations on the absolute intelligence ; and imported thence into the oratorical... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 318 pages
...spring-head unvisited. This was the dry light which did scorch and offend most men's watery natures." Plato had signified the same sense, when he said "...For, meeting with Anaxagoras, who was a person of ill's kind, he attached himself to him, and nourished nimself with sublime speculations on the absolute... | |
 | Mary Olmstead Stanton - 1890 - 776 pages
...the sign for Ideality large. Applicable to this topic Emerson tells us that Plato had signified tin- same sense when he said : "All the great arts require a subtle and si>ertila/ne research into the law of Nature, since loftiness of thought and perfect mastery over every... | |
 | Mrs. Mary Olmstead Stanton - 1903 - 1396 pages
...invention and science exhibit the sign for Ideality large. Applicable to this topic Emerson tells us that Plato had signified the same sense when he said : "All the great nrts require a subtle and speculative research into the law of Nature, since loftiness of thought and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 436 pages
...springhead unvisited. This was the dry light which did scorch and offend most men's watery natures." Plato had signified the same sense, when he said,...mastery over every subject seem to be derived from such source as this. This Pericles had, in addition to a great natural genius. For, meeting with Anaxagoras,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 496 pages
...spring-head unvisited. This was the dry light which did scorch and offend most men's watery natures." Plato had signified the same sense, when he said,...in addition to a great natural genius. For, meeting fa with Anaxagoras, who was a person of this kind, he attached fc himself to him, and nourished himself... | |
 | Mary Olmstead Stanton - 1913 - 1374 pages
...invention and science exhibit the sign for Ideality large. Applicable to this topic Emerson tells us that Plato had signified the same sense when he said :...seem to be derived from some such source as this."* All the great scientists recognize this truth, and it is often noted by them in their writings, and... | |
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