 | 1896 - 374 páginas
...Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense ;1 for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered...is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato,2 and Milton3 is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 páginas
...Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our first thought is rendered back...men, but what they thought. A man should learn to 46 detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre... | |
 | 1899 - 828 páginas
...inoculation of our young people with them. 1 quote again from Emerson in his essay on Self Reliance: "Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the...ascribe to Moses, Plato and Milton is that they set at nought books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought." With notable exceptions,... | |
 | 1899 - 820 páginas
...The inmost and the outmost cannot be long separated. As Emerson says, "The inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the last judgment." At length there must be exact correlation between the subjective and objective, between the spirit... | |
 | 1900 - 514 páginas
...characteristic of Emerson. " Think for yourself," he says again and again. " Believe your own thought." " The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and...and spoke, not what men, but what they, thought." In 1841 the first volume of the " Essays " appeared, followed by the second in 1844. In these two volumes... | |
 | Chauncey C. Starkweather - 1900 - 450 páginas
...characteristic of Emerson. " Think for yourself," he says again and again. " Believe your own thought." " The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and...and spoke, not what men, but what they, thought." In 1841 the first volume of the " Essays " appeared, followed by the second in 1844. In these two volumes... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 páginas
...Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the utmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our first thought is rendered back...what men, but what they thought. A man should learn to~3etect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 páginas
...the outmost, and our iirst thought is 10 rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and...man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of i", light which flashes across his mind from within more than the luster of the firmament of bards... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1901 - 226 páginas
...can exist without it." " The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton," says Emerson, " is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men thought, but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes... | |
 | Fred Newton Scott, Joseph Villiers Denney - 1902 - 410 páginas
...of this belief in one's own thought in a passage that every pupil ought to commit to memory : — " The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and...naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men thought but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes... | |
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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men,— that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, and our... 
