 Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to prefer imperfect theories, and sentences, which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.  Ralph Waldo Emerson: Philosopher and Poet - Page 159by Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 327 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 pages
...secret of nature than a hundred concerted experiments." " Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to...through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit." — Nature, pp. 82 — 83, 86 — 87. And again : " Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual people.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...that " poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history." Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect ; and we learn to...communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit. I shall therefore conclude this essay with some traditions of man and Nature, which a certain poet... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...that " poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history." Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to...communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit. I shall therefore conclude this essay with some traditions of man and nature, which a certain poet... | |
 | 1869 - 688 pages
...of Emerson apply to Sir Charles in this respect : — " Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect ; and we learn to...regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, now activity to the torpid spirit." Indeed, " announcing undiscovered regions of thought," appears... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...that " poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history." Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to...communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit. I shall therefore conclude this essay with some traditions of man and nature, which a certain poet... | |
 | Anthropological Society of London - 1869 - 700 pages
...of Emerson apply to Sir Charles in this respect : — " Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect ; and we learn to...through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit." Indeed, " announcing undiscovered regions of thought," appears to be a principal aim of the " Antiquity... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...that " poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history." Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and -we learn to...communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit. I shall therefore conclude this essay with some traditions of man and nature, which a certain poet... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 326 pages
...than history." Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and \ve learn to prefer imperfect theories, and sentences,...communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit. I shall therefore conclude this essay with some traditions of man and nature, which a certain poet... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 328 pages
...that, " poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history." Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to...communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit. I shall therefore conclude this essay with some traditions of man and nature, which a certain poet... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 pages
...secret of nature than a hundred concerted experiments." " Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to...valuable suggestion. A wise writer will feel that ends of study and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and... | |
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