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" 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 they thought. "
The World's Great Classics: Essays of American essayists - Page 168
edited by - 1899
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, 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 his mind from within,...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, 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 his mind from within,...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Mnsps, Platr^gjH Mil ton 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 flashes across his mind from within,...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, 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 his mind from within,...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. 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 nought books and traditions, and spoke not what men, but what they thought. A man should learn to detect...
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Twelve essays [comprising Essays, 1st ser.].

Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, 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 his mind from within,...
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Twelve Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, 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 his mind from within,...
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Essays, First Series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, 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 his mind from within,...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Moses, Plato, 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 his mind from within,...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 3

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...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 his mind from within,...
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