 | Fredrika Bremer - 1853 - 468 pages
...soul, is that they set books and traditions at nought, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognise... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1854 - 676 pages
...soul, is that they set books and traditions at naught, and spoke not what men. but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...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.... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 418 pages
...would retain them ; and this again is one of its excellent effects ; for, as a great author says, " A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1858 - 702 pages
...soul, is that they set books and traditions at naught, and spoke not what men. but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1860 - 202 pages
...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... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 pages
...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 and watch that gleam...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize... | |
 | Giles Badger Stebbins - 1872 - 416 pages
...philosopher, to the saint, all things are sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. 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. We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes... | |
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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. 
