He is now in great spirits; thinks he shall reach it yet; thinks he shall bottle the wave. It is however getting a little doubtful. Things have an ugly look still. No matter how many centuries of culture have preceded, the new man always finds himself... Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters - Pagina 135di Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 284 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 328 pagine
...centuries of culture have preceded, the new man always finds himself standing on the brink of chaos, always in a crisis. Can anybody remember when the...scarce? Can anybody remember when sensible men, and tha right sort of men, and the right sort of women, were plentiful ? Tantalus begins to think steam... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 558 pagine
...chaos, always in a crisis. Can anybody remember when tho times wore not hard, and money not scarce 7 Can anybody remember when sensible men, and the right sort of men, and tho right sort of women, were plentiful1 Tantalus begins to think steam a delusion, and galvanism no... | |
| James Champlin Fernald - 1896 - 636 pagine
...EXAMPLES. My joys, Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow. Can anybody remember when the right sort of men and the right sort of women were t Share the advice betwixt you; if both gain all, The gift doth stretch itself as 'tis received, And... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 542 pagine
...centuries of culture have preceded, the new man always finds himself standing on the brink of chaos, always in a crisis. Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce 1 Can anybody remember when sensible men, and the right sort of men, and the right sort of women, were... | |
| JOHN BARTLETT - 1919 - 1476 pagine
...was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong. (Snainem. We boil at different degrees. Eloquence. Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce? Works and Days. Self-trust is the first secret of success. Success. Next to the originator of a good... | |
| 1915 - 720 pagine
...you fear want of employment if you are the right sort. Emerson asks, ' ' Can anybody remember when the right sort of men and the right sort of women were plentiful?" Anyone with any experience or reading would readily answer in the negative. Nor need you to cringe... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pagine
...them that is not disagreeable to him. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer Can anybody remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce? Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, philosopher When I meet a man whose name I... | |
| Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - 1992 - 552 pagine
...smooth. — William Shakespeare Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them. — Benjamin Franklin Can anybody remember when the times were not hard and money not scarce? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Eagles: When they wilk, they stumble. They are not what one would call graceful.... | |
| Richard R. O'Keefe - 1995 - 252 pagine
...centuries of culture have preceded, the new man always finds himself standing on the brink of chaos, always in a crisis. Can anybody remember when the...delusion, and galvanism no better than it should be. (163—64) We need to remind ourselves that this is the voice of Emerson in 1857 (and later), not 1836.... | |
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