 The Supreme Critic on fhe errors of the past and the present, and the only prophet of that which must be, is that great nature in which we rest, as the earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere ; that Unity, that Over-soul, within which every man's...  Essays, First Series - Page 246by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Allan Neilson - 1914 - 508 pages
...that of a "great nature in which we rest as the earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere," an "Over-Soul, within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other," which "evermore tends to pass into our thought and hand and become wisdom and virtue and power and... | |
 | Oscar W. Firkins - 1915 - 404 pages
...cradle and reassure. There is a curious fondness for the verb "lie" in a vivid metaphorical sense. -"The great nature in which we rest as the earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere"; "the background of our being, in which they lie"; "we lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual... | |
 | 1916 - 484 pages
...dark churches where the blind mislead the blind." Emerson tells us of the Oversoul that it is that, "within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other." And further: "We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree ; but the... | |
 | William Walter Crotch - 1916 - 248 pages
...the man cognisant of that mystical unity, or as Emerson puts it, that Over-Soul, " within which 35 every man's particular being is contained and made...heart of which all sincere conversation is the worship . . . that over-powering reality which confutes our tricks and talents and constrains everyone to pass... | |
 | 1916 - 1008 pages
...things that surround him; he brings this faculty of judgment into the world. Emerson refers to " the great Nature in which we rest as the earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere." The earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere in the same sense that it lies in the soft arms of... | |
 | 1916 - 414 pages
...dark churches where the blind mislead the blind." Emerson tells us of the Oversoul that it is that, "within which every man's particular being is contained and made one with all other." And further: "We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree ; but the... | |
 | George Rowland Dodson - 1917 - 366 pages
...better self which we trust in self-trust and which is conterminous with a MOBE of the same quality, with "that great nature in which we rest as the earth lies...heart of which all sincere conversation is the worship ; that overpowering reality which confutes our tricks and talents, and constrains everyone to pass... | |
 | Henry David Gray - 1917 - 122 pages
...and most important stage in Emerson's thinking. We have on the one hand^"that overpowering reality," "that Unity, that Over-Soul, within which every man's particular being is contained and ma3e~one with all other" (II, 252), and to counterbalance this we have the statement that Nature "rushes... | |
 | Henry Dwight Sedgwick - 1918 - 218 pages
...That unity of many powers which the mystics symbolize by "Christ" or "God," he calls the Over-soul. "That Unity, that Over-soul, within which every man's...contained and made one with all other ; that common heart ... to which all right action is submission; that overpowering reality . . . evermore tends to pass... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1920 - 348 pages
...brings this faculty of judgment into the world. Emerson refers to " the great Nature in which we 23 rest as the earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere." The earth lies in the soft arms of the atmosphere in the same sense that it lies in the soft arms of... | |
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