 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pàgines
...future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. 24. This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects...like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors, and, as they grow older, of the men of talents and character they chance to see,... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1875 - 618 pàgines
...thus. IV. The Bible, as containing a special divine revelation, is ignored. "See," exclaims Emerson, "what strong intellects dare not yet hear God Himself,...set so great a price on a few texts, on a few lives " (i. 29). Time, we may safely say, will be its own vindicator here : men who read David, Jeremiah,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pàgines
...the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects...like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors, and, as they grow older, of the men of talents and character they chance to see,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pàgines
...the future. He cannot be hap"py and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects...David, or Jeremiah, or Paul. We shall not always set sq^ great a pi on a few texts, on a few lives. We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1842 - 782 pàgines
...were still surprised at the tone of levity and scorn with which he dismisses the sacred writers. ' See what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself,...know not what — David, or Jeremiah, or Paul.'— Essay ii., p. 68. ' If, therefore, a man claims to know and speak of God, and carries you backward... | |
 | 1842 - 740 pàgines
...were still surprised at the tone of levity and scorn with which he dismisses the sacred writers. ' SOP what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself, unless he speak the phraseology of / knmv not what — David, or Jeremiah, or Paul.' — Essay ii., p. 68. ' If, then-fore, a man claims... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pàgines
...the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects...like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors, and, as they grow older, of the men of talents and character they chance to see,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pàgines
...the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects...like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors, and, as they grow older, of the men of talent and character they chance to see,—painfully... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pàgines
...the future. He cannot be happy and strong, until he too lives with nature in the present, above time. This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects...like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors, and, as they grow older, of the men of talents and character they chance to see—painfully... | |
 | Charles Chauncey Burr - 1848 - 380 pàgines
...the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lies witb nature in the present, above time. This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself, unless he speak in the phraseology of I know not what David, or Jeremiah, or Paul. We shall not always set so great... | |
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Yet see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself, unless he speak the phraseology of I know not what David, or Jeremiah, or Paul. We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts, on a few lives. 
