 | American essays - 1905 - 880 pages
...Roman emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Marcus Aurelius is not a great writer, a great philosophy-maker; he is the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit " Emerson's abiding word for us, the word by which being dead he yet speaks to us, is this: 'That which... | |
 | Universities and colleges - 1883 - 520 pages
...awakener and inspirer of men, he kindles the intellectual power to light unattained before, "he is the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit." If a man can be all this without poetry, philosophy or literary art one would be willing to let those... | |
 | William Hague - Authors, American - 1884 - 84 pages
...externalism " in the life of the Spirit." If, therefore, it had been said of him that, like Plotinus, he was " the Friend and Aider of those who would live in the Spirit," the phrase would fitly designate a class of persons recognizing spiritual kinship and a unity of ideas... | |
 | Samuel Edward Herrick - Christian biography - 1884 - 356 pages
...Arnold, in his recent lecture on Emerson, said that " Mr. Emerson's great work lay in this, that he was the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit," which is but another way of saying that Mr. Emerson was a mystic. For mysticism is not an ism, but... | |
 | Concord School of Philosophy - 1884 - 488 pages
...compare Emerson with Plutarch, the precursor of Marcus Aurelius, and- much more than that emperor " the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit," we should have said that the comparison was more just; for Plutarch, in his genius and his influence,... | |
 | Egbert Coffin Smyth - 1884 - 720 pages
...rank Emerson. His relation to us is more like that of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. He is preeminently the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit His insight is admirable, his truth precious ; but the secret of his effect is in his serene, beautiful,... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1884 - 524 pages
...philosophy-maker ; he is the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit. Emerson is the same. He is the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit. All the points in thinking which are necessary for this purpose he takes ; but he does not combine... | |
 | 1884 - 502 pages
...directness, concreteness, and energy. Nor is his prose true and sound throughout, nor his philosophy. " He is the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit." His temper holds the secret of his influence ; by his serene, beautiful spirit he holds us fast to... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1900 - 516 pages
...fitting tribute could be offered to the memory of a man so justly characterized by Matthew Arnold as "the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit " than this little treasury of his unstudied words to a friend; nor do they serve to establish anything... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Authors, American - 1888 - 230 pages
...manifold. The most important are summed up in Matthew Arnold's brief and exquisite character of him as "The friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit." Arnold compares him to Marcus Aurelius, to whom the same character is equally applicable. Mr. Thayer,... | |
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Aurelius is not a great writer, a great philosophy-maker ; he is the friend and aider of those who would live in the spirit. 
