The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul. In its experiments there has always remained, in the last analysis, a residuum it could not resolve. Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending... Essays: First Series - Página 241por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 333 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Laurentine Hamilton - 1881 - 288 páginas
...sympathy with Christian thought than he has appeared in his riper days, wrote such words as these : " Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. * * I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a higher origin for events than the will I call mine.... | |
| Charles Mason Barrows - 1887 - 262 páginas
...ignorance, asks Emerson, but the fine innuendo by which the soul makes its enormous claim ? The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 páginas
...and . n, ignorance but the fine irmendo by which the soul makes its enormous claim? The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers...being is descending into us from we know not ^ whence. I am constrained every moment to acknowledge a ^ higher origin for events than the will I call mine.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 páginas
...what you have said of him, and it becomes old, and books of metaphysics worthless ? The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers...resolve./ Man is a stream whose source is hidden./ Always our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact calculator has no prescience... | |
| Nathaniel Holmes - 1888 - 542 páginas
...or an unknowable source, if not from " the ineffable fountain " of Plotinus. " Man," says Emerson, " is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence." . . . "As with events, so is it with thoughts. When I watch that flowing river, which, out of regions... | |
| Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 páginas
...Wagstaffe. The philosophy of one century is the commonsense of the next Ward fíecchcr. The philosophy ime does not impair? Her. Damnum absque injuria — Low without injustice. Dam Emerson, The phcenix, Hope, can wing her flight / Through the vast deserts of the skies, ' And still... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1895 - 334 páginas
...behind what you have said of him, and it becomes old, and books of metaphysics worthless? The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers and magazines of the soul. In its ex(237) periments there has always remained, in the last analysis, a residuum it could not resolve.... | |
| 1898 - 404 páginas
...promises to be interesting!" said I to myself, as I walked home. (To be continued.) THE philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers...not resolve. Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Always our being is descended into us from we know not whence.—Emerson. THE beauty of the face is... | |
| 1898 - 404 páginas
...promises to be interesting!" said I to myself, as I walked home. (To be continued.) I THE philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers...not resolve. Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Always our being is descended into us from we know not whence. — Emerson. THE beauty of the face... | |
| 1898 - 946 páginas
...but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles. — Emerson. The philosophy of six thousand years has not searched the chambers...the last analysis, a residuum it could not resolve. — Emerson. From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware... | |
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