Thus only can you gain the secret isolated joy of the thinker, who knows that, a hundred years after he is dead and forgotten, men who never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought— the... Speeches by Oliver Wendell Holmes - Página 25por Oliver Wendell Holmes (Jr.) - 1896 - 69 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Ohio State Bar Association, Ohio State Bar Association. Mid-Winter Meeting - 1891 - 216 páginas
...forgotten, men who never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thoughts — the subtle rapture of a postponed power, which the world knows...vision is more real than that which commands an army." My brethren, these brilliant thoughts concern the lawyer as preeminently a thinker. It is as such that... | |
| 1917 - 1062 páginas
...dead and forgotten, men who never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought,—the subtile rapture of a postponed power, which the world...can know that you have done what it lay in you to do,—can say that you have lived, and be ready for the end.—Hon. Oliver Wendell Holmes. JUDG and... | |
| 1924 - 306 páginas
...forgotten, men who never heard of him will be moving to the measure of his thought, — the subtle rapture of a postponed power, which the world knows...vision is more real than that which commands an army." That is one idea of pleasure, but most workers in the vineyard would assume judicial power and mildly... | |
| Albert W. Alschuler - 2000 - 348 páginas
...him will be moving to the measure of his thought, — the subtle rapture of a postponed power . . . which to his prophetic vision is more real than that which commands an army."24' Holmes surely was writing about Holmes, and more than one hundred years after The Path oj... | |
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