Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being. Essays and Poems of Emerson - Page 151by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 525 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alice Hubbard - Conduct of life - 1918 - 382 pages
...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...let us advance and advance on Chaos and the Dark. <IWhat pretty oracles Nature yields us on this text in the face and behavior of children, babes and... | |
| James Cloyd Bowman - American essays - 1918 - 504 pages
...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...and benefactors, pious aspirants to be noble clay under the Almighty effort, let us advance on Chaos and the Dark. What pretty oracles nature yields... | |
| Maurice Garland Fulton - Democracy - 1918 - 448 pages
...hands, predominating in all their being. And we are now men, and must accept in the highest spirit the same transcendent destiny; and not pinched in...let us advance and advance on chaos and the dark!" These lofty sentences of Emerson, and a hundred others of like strain, I never have lost out of my... | |
| Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1918 - 986 pages
...of events. Great men have 392 MATTHEW ARNOLD genius of their age ; betraying their perception that the Eternal was stirring at their heart, working through...And we are now men, and must accept in the highest spirit the same transcendent destiny ; and not pinched in a corner, not cowards 70 fleeing before a... | |
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - Literary Criticism - 1919 - 512 pages
...childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers,... | |
| Joseph Albert Mosher - Readers - 1920 - 308 pages
...childlike to the genius of their age, betraying the perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers... | |
| Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - American essays - 1921 - 416 pages
...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...highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but redeemers and... | |
| American literature - 1922 - 384 pages
...childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers,... | |
| Vedanta - 1922 - 278 pages
...childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating...highest mind the same transcendent destiny ; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers... | |
| Stuart Pratt Sherman - American literature - 1922 - 364 pages
...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." In his roving early days as teacher, printer, editor; reading his Dante and Shakespeare in a wood by... | |
| |