 A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide. What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man. does not. as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul,...  The North British Review - Page 2691867Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide. What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide. What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide. What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide. What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide. What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide. What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him,... | |
 | Jules Remy, Julius Lucius Brenchley - California - 1861 - 674 pages
...light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide."f And in * By calling Descartes to mind, it is possible to get a good idea of the difference... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1876 - 504 pages
...light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all. A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide. What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him,... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Biography as a literary form - 1876 - 404 pages
...background of our being, in which they lie — an immensity not possessed, and which cannot be possessed. A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and good abide. What we commonly call man — the eating, drinking, planting, counting man — does not,... | |
 | John Nichol - American literature - 1882 - 492 pages
...passion." " Prayer, as a means to effect a private end, supposes dualism in nature and consciousness ; as soon as the man is at one with God he will see...The ancient mystics believed in philosophers, the mediteval in saints. Mr. Emerson endeavours to comprehend the manifold forms of their faith in a catholic... | |
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