 In like manner, the memorable words of history and the proverbs of nations consist usually of a natural fact, selected as a picture or parable of a moral truth. Thus: A rolling stone gathers no moss; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush; A cripple...  Representative Men: Nature, Addresses and Lectures - Strana 38autor/autoři: Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 str.Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | 1836 - 444 str.
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 | 1840 - 516 str.
...you have many advantages, and you may easily go farther and fare worse. Those are true proverbs, " A rolling stone gathers no moss" — " A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." " The dog that grasped at a shadow lost the substance." " I was well, would be better,... | |
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 str.
...difference in weight being compensated by time ; " and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a...stone gathers no moss ; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush; A cripple in the right way, will beat a racer in the wrong; Make hay while the sun... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 str.
...difference of weight being compensated by time ;" and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a...stone gathers no moss; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ; A cripple in the right way, will beat a racer in the wrong; Make hay whilst the sun... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 str.
...difference of weight being compensated by time;" and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a...selected as a picture, or parable, of a moral truth. Thus—a rolling stone gathers no moss; a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush; a cripple, in... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 100 str.
...difference of weight being compensated by time ; " and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a...stone gathers no moss ; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ; A cripple in the right way, will beat a racer in the wrong ; Make hay while the sun... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 str.
...difference of weight being compensated by time ; " and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a...stone gathers no moss ; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ; A cripple in the right way, will beat a racer in the wrong ; Make hay while the sun... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 str.
...difference of weight being compensated by time;" and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a...technical use. '• In like manner, the memorable words of his~ tory, and the proverbs of nations, consist usually of a natural fact, selected as a picture or... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 str.
...difference of weight being compensated by time ; " and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a...stone gathers no moss ; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ; A cripple in the right way, will beat a racer in the wrong; Make hay while the sun... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 str.
...difference of weight being compensated by time ;" and many the like propositions, which have an ethical as well as physical sense. These propositions have a...stone gathers no moss ; A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ; A cripple in the right way will beat a racer in the wrong ; Make hay whilst the sun... | |
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