 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 247by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870Full view - About this book
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1906 - 352 pages
...climbs slow, how slowly ! But westward, look, the land is bright ! ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Trust Thyself \ MAN should learn to detect and watch that •^*- gleam...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... | |
 | 1907 - 350 pages
...climbs slow, how slowly ! But westward, look, the land is bright ! ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Trust Thyself A MAN should learn to detect and watch that gleam...of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice TRUST THYSELF his thought because it is his. In every work of genius we recognise our own rejected... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pages
...Milton, is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men said 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." " Kingdom and lordship, power and estate, are a gaudier... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pages
...Milton, is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men said 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." " Kingdom and lordship, power and estate, are a gaudier... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they . thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that 15 gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament2 of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every... | |
 | Henry Guy Walters - 1907 - 116 pages
...convicMateriai tion and it shall be the unitantheism. versal sense." Self-reliance (op. nit p. 1.) "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across Science and Health (op. cit. p. 587 "The belief that Infinite mind is in finite forms," is "mythology,"... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 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 works... | |
 | 1909 - 540 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...recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us 63 with a certain alienated majesty. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 636 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 recvgnize our own rejected thoughts ; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Great... | |
 | Frank Morton McMurry - 1909 - 348 pages
...thinking for us, and we will ever be suffering from the timidity that Emerson laments in the words : — A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...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... | |
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