 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 they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of...  Essays - Page 41by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1889 - 608 pages
...Universalista have just left, to join, also, the march of churches country-ward. Gro 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.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1891 - 406 pages
...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 they.thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind... | |
 | Benn Pitman - 1892 - 202 pages
...is-that-they set at naught books andtraditions, 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 from within, more-than the lustre (of the) firmament of bards and sages'. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 pages
...Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato,2 and Milton3 is, that they set at naught books and traditions,...flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament4 of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 168 pages
...and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man. January Fifth. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. January Sixth. January Seventh. Every decent and well-spoken individual affects and sways me more than... | |
 | 1896 - 374 pages
...Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato,2 and Milton3 is, that they set at naught books and traditions,...flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament4 of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1896 - 390 pages
...studying any such question as this to run through some one thing and note whatever is to the point. 1. "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." 2. " What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text in the face and behavior of children, babes,... | |
 | 1896 - 234 pages
...That their method is unique comes from the work they attempt to do ; namely, to turn the mind inward " to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." Really, Emerson is not engaged in presenting abstract truth, hut in clothing truth in flesh and blood.... | |
 | 1900 - 436 pages
...be dismissed as fanciful. How many times we may have entertained an angel unawares! Says Emerson : "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... | |
 | Victor Charbonnel - 1899 - 386 pages
...ourselves with this vain optimism. Let us give up pure contemplation, and act ! " A man," says Emerson, " should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." But, so soon as this gleam of light is detected and watched, we 31 The Victory of the Will should project... | |
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