 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
 | William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren - 1922 - 456 pages
...paragraph just cited — the clear call to self-reliance, announcing that "a man should learn to detect v and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within "; the firm assurance that, through all the balanced play of circumstance, "there is a deeper fact... | |
 | William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt Sherman, Carl Van Doren - 1923 - 456 pages
...great passages, as it is in the paragraph just cited—the clear call to self-reliance, announcing that "a man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...of light which flashes across his mind from within "; the firm assurance that, through all the balanced play of circumstance, "there is a deeper fact... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 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...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... | |
 | 1924 - 228 pages
...expense of that fine individualism of the Oxonian who, like Emerson's scholar, "learns to detect the gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the lustre of firmament of bards and sages." In general, the disposition to separate sharply the debating from the... | |
 | Bertrand Lyon - 1925 - 444 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...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... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton luster of the firmament of hards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1926 - 1160 pages
...of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton is that they set 5 at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what...flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster 10 of the firmament of bards and sages. Y^t he dismisses without notice his thought, because... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 412 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. AmarLahmild learn-to detect and watch that gleam of light wnic'nTBNihes across his riunS from wUTilll,... | |
 | Frederick William Beckman, Harry Russell O'Brien, Blair Converse - 1927 - 438 pages
...assignment with each of the five other types of articles. CHAPTER XVI FINDING SUBJECTS FOR FEATURE ARTICLES A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt... | |
 | George Carpenter Clancy - 1928 - 288 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...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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