 Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what thev thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of...  The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 245by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870Full view - About this book
 | Stanley Cavell - 2005 - 432 pages
...Dewey's Construction and Criticism, dating from 1929: As Emerson says in his essay on "Self-Reliance": "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...of light which flashes across his mind from within, . . . else to-morrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and... | |
 | Naoko Saito - 2005 - 238 pages
...and it does this around a figure that is sustained in Emerson and developed by Dewey. Emerson writes: "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within."9 This is an image that symbolizes the sense of being and becoming in the path of perfection.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 pages
...Plato and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind 31 from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 pages
...gleams of a world in which we do not live" (JMN 5:270). Later, in "Self-Reliance," we will be told that "a man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards or sages" (E&L 259). In the finale of Nature, following... | |
 | Beatrice Hanssen - 2006 - 316 pages
...of 'Self-Reliance' (no more famous that it is unknown, to Benjamin for example), also about reading: 'A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages'? Doesn't Emerson confirm this advice in his essay 'Experience', when the idea of 'persisting to read... | |
 | Bobbi Zemo - 2006 - 249 pages
...Plato and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that...flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it... | |
 | W. P. Trent - 2006 - 604 pages
[ Sorry, this page's content is restricted ] | |
| |
