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
| Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 568 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 1 From Essays, First Series. The second half of the essay has here been omitted. what they thought.... | |
| James Logan Gordon - 1914 - 266 pages
...God. He can mirror the face of Truth. He can know God. Emerson has said, "A man should learn to detect that gleam of light which flashes across his mind, from within, more than the glory of suns or wisdom of the sages," and Joseph Cook used to speak of "the response of the moral... | |
| Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 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,...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... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 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...but what they thought. A man should learn to detect 27 and watch that gleam ' of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre... | |
| John Walter Ross - 1915 - 288 pages
...back 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 spoke not what men but what they themselves thought Emerson Essay on Self -Reliance. 2. I married early and was happy to find in my... | |
| Alfred Hall - 1915 - 260 pages
...to bring even his words to the test of human experience, thought, and aspiration. Emerson said : ' 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.'1 Could Jesus have... | |
| George Frederick Gundelfinger - 1916 - 348 pages
...to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.' A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.' It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our... | |
| 1916 - 548 pages
...declares with the conviction, at once proud and humble, of one conscious of his own high spiritual gifts, "to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. " That gleam is the inflowing of God, or of Nature, which is the manifestation of God, or of the Over-Soul,... | |
| George Wharton James - 1916 - 326 pages
...desire to know that led him to write the hymn. What a profound truth Emerson said when he wrote : " 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... | |
| Leland Todd Powers - 1916 - 172 pages
...voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is that they all set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. 2. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within,... | |
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