 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 41de Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 333 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 pages
...heartily without learning something." t " The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton, is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men said but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1907 - 578 pages
...heartily without learning something." t " The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton, is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men said but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes... | |
 | Frank Morton McMurry - 1909 - 348 pages
...thinking for us, and we will ever be suffering from the timidity that Emerson laments in the words : — 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses,0 Plato,0 and Milton0 is, that they set at naught books and traditions,...learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which 15 flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...as the voice of the 10 mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato,2 and Milton3 is, that they set at naught books and traditions,...flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firma- 15 ment4 of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because... | |
 | 1911 - 616 pages
...cause." On the first page of his essay on "Self-reliance," we have the following beautiful sentence: "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." This inwardness, this attitude of listening for the accents of the soul, is of the East. "You are,"... | |
 | 1911 - 540 pages
...cause." On the first page of his essay on "Self-reliance," we have the following beautiful sentence: "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." This inwardness, this attitude of listening for the accents of the soul, is of the East. "You are,"... | |
 | Rollo Walter Brown, Nathaniel Waring Barnes - 1913 - 396 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... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 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...learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which 15 flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet... | |
 | George Rowland Dodson - 1913 - 312 pages
...is one of the deepest and clearest yet enjoyed by man. In his essay on " Self-reliance," he says, " 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." This was his own method which he employed with marvelous... | |
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