The cloud, the tree, the turf, the bird are not theirs, have nothing of them : the world is only their lodging and table. But the poet, whose verses are to be spheral and complete, is one whom Nature cannot deceive, whatsoever face of strangeness she... Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series - 第 318 頁Ralph Waldo Emerson 著 - 1883完整檢視 - 關於此書
| 1901 - 744 頁
...convulsive, averse to all stagnation. As one of the greatest of nineteenth- century philosophers has said, " God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which yon please — you can never have both." This, then, was the age when men were choosing Truth rather... | |
| 1852 - 572 頁
...reed, but bidding him stand firm Though she crush worlds. God offers to every mind, it has been said, its choice between truth and repose. "Take which you...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 頁
...Politics, Art, in the hope that in the course of a few years we shall have condensed into our encyclopedia the net value of all the theories at which the world...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... | |
| 1912 - 880 頁
...occupations. The keynote of this volume Is a quotation taken from Emerson's Essay on Intellect which begins, "God offers to every mind Its choice between truth...Take which you please — you can never have both." Jacob is a "candidate for truth," according to Emerson, In that he submits to the "Inconvenience of... | |
| 1848 - 614 頁
...freedom and. the truthfulness of his thought. His essays are jeplete with passages such as this : — " God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you ean never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 頁
...parabola, whose arcs will never meet. so far in one direction, that I am out of the hoop of your horizon. Neither by detachment, neither by aggregation, is...its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please—you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 頁
...few men to be poets, yet every man is a receiver of this descending Holy Ghost, and may well stud y the laws of its influx. Exactly parallel is the whole...its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please,—you can never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the... | |
| 1848 - 636 頁
...freedom and the truthfulness of his thought. His essays are replete with passages such as this : — " God offers to every mind its choice between truth...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1848 - 610 頁
...freedom and the truthfulness of his thought. His essays are replete with passages such as ! this : — " God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you ean never have both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in whom the love of repose... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 頁
...the best accumulation or disposition of details, yet does the world reappear in miniature in evety event, so that all the laws of nature -may be read...both. Between these, as a pendulum, man oscillates ever. He in Whom the love of repose predominates, will accept the first creed, the first philosophy,... | |
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