 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
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 624 pages
...Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spake 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. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 pages
...Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spake 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. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion... | |
 | Lucy A. Chittenden - 1886 - 204 pages
...Bolts and bars are not the best of our institutions; nor is shrewdness in trade a mark of wisdom. 2. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us ivith a sort of alienated majesty. Rule 23. — The clauses of a compound sentence, if they contain... | |
 | Lucy A. Chittenden - 1884 - 204 pages
...Bolts and bars are not the best of our institutions; nor is shrewdness in trade a mark of wisdom. 2. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a sort of alienated majesty. Rule 23.—The clauses of a compound sentence, if they contain commas within... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 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...thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts : they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 802 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...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Xe* he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 pages
...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 a * from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without... | |
 | 1915 - 464 pages
...privilege of purchasing a ticket, price one dollar. Apply to Chairman LA Seitz. Do You WATCH FOB IT? — A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across the mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1889 - 608 pages
...A THAYFK Cincinnati. Ohio. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light whicli Hashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of the bards and sages. — Emerson. THE INADEQUACY OF REA6ON. EXPERIENCES OK STCART Мтьь, DARWIN,... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1891 - 188 pages
...Emerson,1 " is that they set at nought books and traditions, and spoke not what men thought, but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that...thought because it is his. In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty." It is... | |
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