 | 1905 - 880 sider
...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... | |
 | 1883 - 520 sider
...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... | |
 | Egbert Coffin Smyth - 1884 - 720 sider
...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,... | |
 | 1884 - 502 sider
...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... | |
 | Samuel Edward Herrick - 1884 - 406 sider
...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... | |
 | William Hague - 1884 - 84 sider
...Mr. Emerson's chief and distinctive power was like that of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, known as " the Friend and Aider of those who would live in the Spirit." To many of the listeners that designation of a class conveyed no distinct idea ; it was puzzling and... | |
 | Concord School of Philosophy - 1884 - 488 sider
...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,... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1884 - 524 sider
...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... | |
 | 1900 - 516 sider
...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 - 1888 - 230 sider
...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. 
