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
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 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...we recognize our own rejected thoughts : they come hack to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 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...notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genins we recognize our own rejected thoughts : they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 300 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...notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genins we recognize our own rejected thoughts : they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.... | |
| George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 406 pages
...tip.pd nf San 1 -trust, of accepting that . teaching which the Universal Mind gives to every persqn. " A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages."3 He is to trust that power within,... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 pages
...Milton, is that they set at nought books and traditions, and spoke not what men said but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." " Kingdom and lordship, power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 556 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 - 1900 - 356 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...firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without noiice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts... | |
| Eisteddfod genedlaethol Cymru - 1884 - 564 pages
...interpret what we see and experience. " — (Channing). " A man should learn to detect and watch the gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the lustre of the firmament of the bards and sages." — (Emerson). Nid oes dadl nad yw sylwadaeth yn dwyn dyddordeb mawr. Ac nid... | |
| 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... | |
| Lucy A. Chittenden - 1884 - 198 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 d sort of alienated majesty. -—, ^ Rule 23.—The clauses of a compound sentence, if they contain... | |
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