 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 thev thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of...  The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Página 245por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 páginas
...and Milton0 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 light which 15 flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet... | |
 | 1911 - 796 páginas
...declares, "we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back with a certain alienated majesty. ... A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...dismisses without notice his thought because it is his. Great works of art have no more affecting lesson than this." This is one of the curious things in the... | |
 | 1911 - 540 páginas
...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 - 616 páginas
...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,"... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 páginas
...and Milton3 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...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... | |
 | Rollo Walter Brown, Nathaniel Waring Barnes - 1913 - 396 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | George Rowland Dodson - 1913 - 312 páginas
...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... | |
 | Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 páginas
...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 light which 15 flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet... | |
 | Maurice Garland Fulton - 1914 - 556 páginas
...but 1 From Essays, First Series. The second half of the essay Iios here been omitted. 158 what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that...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... | |
 | James Logan Gordon - 1914 - 266 páginas
...God. He can mirror the face of Truth. He can know God. Emerson has said, "A man should learn to detect that gleam of light which flashes across his mind, from within, more than the glory of suns or wisdom of the sages," and Joseph Cook used to speak of "the response of the moral... | |
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