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 - Seite 41von Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 333 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 Seiten
...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...from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bard and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius... | |
| 1849 - 448 Seiten
...learning something." — Nature, p. 92. " The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton, is that they set at naught books and traditions, and...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." " Kingdom and lordship, power and estate are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a... | |
| Fredrika Bremer - 1853 - 664 Seiten
...recognizes as the voice of his own soul, is that they set books and traditions at naught, and spoke oot what men. but what they thought. A man should learn...across his mind from within, more than the lustre oi the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his.... | |
| Fredrika Bremer - 1854 - 676 Seiten
...every man recognizes as the voice of his own soul, is that they set books and traditions at naught, and spoke not what men. but what they thought. A man...across his mind from within, more than the lustre ol the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his.... | |
| John Relly Beard - 1860 - 202 Seiten
...Luke, iv. 18. None so blind as they who will not see. Light is. light, though the blind see it not. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. There is a poor blind man who every day, In summer sunshine, or in winter's rain, Daily as tolls the... | |
| Jules Remy, Julius Lucius Brenchley - 1861 - 660 Seiten
...the most supreme contempt for tradition. " 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.f .... Ah ! then, exclaimed the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be understood. Misunderstood... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 Seiten
...Moses, Plato, and Milton, is that they set at nonght books and traditions, and spoke not what men said but what they thought. A man should learn to detect...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." "Kingdom and lordship, power and estate, are a gaudier vocabulary than private John and Edward in a... | |
| Andrew Jackson Davis - 1867 - 422 Seiten
...saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. 2 A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which Hashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. 3 We... | |
| Andrew Jackson Davis - 1868 - 412 Seiten
...saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. 2 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. 3 We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 Seiten
...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 light which flashes across his mind... | |
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