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" 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 41
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 333 pages
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Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 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,...men, but what they thought. A man should learn to 46 detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre...
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Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe

George Eliot - 1899 - 308 pages
...nothing is the young gtudent so timid and uncertain as in regard to his own opinion. Unless he learns " to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within," it will soon be obscured and lost. TOPICS FOR STUDY. PART I. 1. When and where does the plot of " Silas...
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The Metaphysical Magazine, Volumes 9-10

1899 - 828 pages
...mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton is that they set at nought books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought." With notable exceptions, and with a generally growing tendency for the better, our education now is...
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Essays of American Essayists: Including Biographical and Critical Sketches

Chauncey C. Starkweather - 1900 - 496 pages
...and again. " Believe your own thought." " 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." In 1841 the first volume of the " Essays " appeared, followed by the second in 1844. In these two volumes...
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Essays of American Essayists: Including Biographical and Critical Sketches ...

1900 - 514 pages
...and again. " Believe your own thought." " 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." In 1841 the first volume of the " Essays " appeared, followed by the second in 1844. In these two volumes...
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Introductory Lessons in English Literature: For High Schools and Academies

Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 pages
...to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and...man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of i", light which flashes across his mind from within more than the luster of the firmament of bards...
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History, Self-reliance, Nature, Spiritual Laws, The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 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...what men, but what they thought. A man should learn to~3etect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre...
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The Principles of Success in Literature

George Henry Lewes - 1901 - 226 pages
...can exist without it." " The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton," says Emerson, " is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men thought, but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes...
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Composition-literature

Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1902 - 408 pages
...Plato, and Milton, is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men thought but what they thought. A man should learn to detect...and watch that gleam of light which flashes across the mind from within more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without...
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Composition-literature

Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1902 - 404 pages
...every pupil ought to commit to memory: — " The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton, is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men thought but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes...
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