 Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for always the inmost becomes the outmost — and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest...  Essays for College English - Page 421edited by - 1918 - 474 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 448 pages
...present condition : " No man ever prayed heartily, without learning something." — Nature, p. 92. " The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and...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 flashes across... | |
 | 1850 - 524 pages
...understand' and be able to make use of this last awful declaration' ? He then proceeds thus : — " Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Phf-o, ana* Milton, is, that they set at nought books and traditioas, atid spoke not what men but what... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...Speak your latent conviction and it shall be the universal sense ; for the inmost becomes in due time the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered...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 flashes across... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - Cuba - 1853 - 664 pages
...life. In his lecture on self-reliance, he says: * " To believe your own thought—to believe that which is true for you in your private heart is true for...back to us' by the trumpets of the last judgment. The highest merit which we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is that which every man recognizes as... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - Cuba - 1854 - 676 pages
...In his lecture on self-reliance, he says : " To believe your own thought — to believe that which is true for you in your private heart is true for...rendered back to us by the trumpets of the last judgment. The highest merit which we ascribe to Mosos, Plato, and Milton is that which every man recognizes as... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 352 pages
...genius. Speak your latent conviction, ~afi3'1t"sEirEe~the universal sense ; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is...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 flashes across... | |
 | Jules Remy, Julius Lucius Brenchley - California - 1861 - 660 pages
...of their having this high confidence in themselves, and the most supreme contempt for tradition. " The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and...naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought.f .... Ah ! then, exclaimed the aged ladies, you shall be sure to be understood.... | |
 | Theodore Parker - American literature - 1864 - 626 pages
...present condition : " No man ever prayed heartily, without learning something." — Nature, p. 92. " The highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton, is that they set at nonght books and traditions, and spoke not what men said but what they thought. A man should learn... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...genius. 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...naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what thev thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - Apologetics - 1872 - 420 pages
...stars." 1 " 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...back to us by the trumpets of the last judgment." 2 Still another injunction, which Emerson finds in his general doctrine, and which he lays on us all,... | |
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