 Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled to a certain respect, and we learn to prefer imperfect theories, and sentences, which contain glimpses of truth, to digested systems which have no one valuable suggestion.  The Anthropological Review - Page 1391869Full view - About this book
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 lehte
...science, we accept the sentence of Plato, that " poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history." Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled...regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit. I shall therefore conclude this essay with some traditions of man... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 lehte
...science, we accept the sentence of Plato, that " poetry comes nearer to vital truth than histoty." Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled...regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit. I shall therefore conclude this essay with some traditions of man... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 lehte
...science, we accept the sentence of Plato, that " Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history." Every surmise and vaticination of the mind, is entitled...regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit. I shall therefore conclude this essay with some traditions of man... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 lehte
...science, we accept the sentence of Plato, that, " poetry comes nearer to vital truth_ than history." Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled...regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit. I shall therefore conclude this essay with some traditions of man... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 lehte
...science', we accept the sentence of Plato, that, " poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history." Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled...suggestion. A wise writer will feel that the ends of stiidy and composition are best answered by announcing undiscovered regions of thought, and so communicating,... | |
 | 1849 - 448 lehte
...and that a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a hundred concerted experiments." " Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled...regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit." — Nature, pp. 82 — 83, 86 — 87. And again : " Jesus astonishes... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 lehte
...science, we accept the sentence of Plato, that " poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history." Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled...regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit. I shall therefore conclude this essay with some traditions of man... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 lehte
...and that a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a hundred concerted experiments." " Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled...regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit." — Nature, pp. 82 — 83, 86 — 87, And again : " Jesus astonishes... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 lehte
...and that a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a hundred concerted experiments." " Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled...regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit." — Nature, pp. 82 — 83, 86 — 87. And again : " Jesus astonishes... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 lehte
...science, we accept the sentence of Plato, that " poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history." Every surmise and vaticination of the mind is entitled...regions of thought, and so communicating, through hope, new activity to the torpid spirit. I shall therefore conclude this essay with some traditions of man... | |
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