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
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| Ellwood Johnson - 2005 - 300 pages
...men (Moses, Plato, Milton) "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." Influence was the hobgoblin of Emerson's mind. The one thing not to be forgiven to intellectual persons... | |
| Anahita Teymourian-Pesch - 2006 - 288 pages
...Porte, Saundra Morris [Hg.], WW Norton & Company, Inc. New York, London 2001, 95. 197 Vgl. hierzu: „A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. [...] The relations ofthe soul to the divine spirit are so pure, that it is profane to seek to interpose... | |
| Jodi O'Brien - 2006 - 586 pages
...only mentioned casually in passing. Perhaps the most fundamental basis of his thought is found in (2): "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." The key word is "flashes." In the context of the sentence, he seems to be suggesting that the flashes... | |
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