Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius... Essays: First Series - Página 41por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 333 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Robert J. Higgs - 1995 - 404 páginas
...you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their...through their hands, predominating in all their being" (Selections 148). Emerson had a deep antipathy to both conformity and imitation, and his great men... | |
| Christopher Newfield - 1996 - 292 páginas
...you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their...in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny . . . obeying the almighty effort, and advancing on Chaos and the Dark" (EscmdLs, 260). This passage... | |
| Christopher Curtis Mead - 1999 - 220 páginas
...classically American. Ralph Waldo Emerson called it "Self-Reliance" in 1841: "Great men have always . . . confided themselves childlike to the genius of their...working through their hands, predominating in all their being."2 What, in fact, the "genius of their age" might be remains unsaid, because it is understood... | |
| Diane Ravitch - 2000 - 662 páginas
...you, the society of your contemporaries, the connexion of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.... | |
| Wanda H. Ball, Pam Brewer - 2000 - 182 páginas
...you; the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.... | |
| Beca Lewis - 2002 - 212 páginas
...you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Although we often express ourselves through... | |
| David Castronovo - 2004 - 216 páginas
...consciousness — of its urgency, impatience, and irrationality: "Great men . . . have always . . . confided themselves childlike to the genius of their...heart, working through their hands, predominating in their being." It's a dangerous way to live. Emerson says it has "edge"; Mailer admits it's close to... | |
| William Potter - 2004 - 274 páginas
...have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age ... we [Americans] are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny . . . [we are] guides, redeemers, and benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort, and advancing on Chaos... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 páginas
...you, the society of your contemporaries, the connexion of events, Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.... | |
| Al Smith - 2007 - 464 páginas
...you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their...transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a 126 protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers, and benefactors,... | |
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