The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Svazek 4Macmillan, 1902 |
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Strana 9
... thing good and wise . There were only three things which the government had brought into that garden of delights , namely , itch , pox , and famine . Whereas , in Malta , the force of law and mind was seen , in making that barren rock ...
... thing good and wise . There were only three things which the government had brought into that garden of delights , namely , itch , pox , and famine . Whereas , in Malta , the force of law and mind was seen , in making that barren rock ...
Strana 14
... things . But I fear they are too much given to the making of money ; and secondly , to politics ; that they make political distinction the end , and not the means . And I fear they lack a class of men of leisure , in short , of ...
... things . But I fear they are too much given to the making of money ; and secondly , to politics ; that they make political distinction the end , and not the means . And I fear they lack a class of men of leisure , in short , of ...
Strana 63
... thing , and is ready to allow the justice of the thought and act in his retainer or tenant , though sorely against his ... things , or there live , or there lie . " They hate craft and subtlety . They neither poison , nor waylay , nor ...
... thing , and is ready to allow the justice of the thought and act in his retainer or tenant , though sorely against his ... things , or there live , or there lie . " They hate craft and subtlety . They neither poison , nor waylay , nor ...
Strana 69
... things too finely ( which is charged on the Germans ) , constitute that despatch of business , which makes the mercantile power of England . He In war , the Englishman looks to his means . is of the opinion of Civilis , his German ...
... things too finely ( which is charged on the Germans ) , constitute that despatch of business , which makes the mercantile power of England . He In war , the Englishman looks to his means . is of the opinion of Civilis , his German ...
Strana 83
... thing the English value , is pluck . The cabmen have it ; the merchants have it ; the bishops have it ; the women have it ; the journals have it ; the Times newspaper , they say , is the pluckiest thing in England , and Sydney Smith had ...
... thing the English value , is pluck . The cabmen have it ; the merchants have it ; the bishops have it ; the women have it ; the journals have it ; the Times newspaper , they say , is the pluckiest thing in England , and Sydney Smith had ...
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Strana 291 - At last comes Plato, the distributor, who needs no barbaric paint, or tattoo, or whooping; for he can define. He leaves with Asia the vast and superlative ; he is the arrival of accuracy and intelligence. " He shall be as a god to me, who can rightly divide and define.
Strana 379 - Essays remained to me from my father's library, when a boy. It lay long neglected, until, after many years, when I was newly escaped from college, I read the book, and procured the remaining volumes. I remember the delight and wonder in which I lived with it. It seemed to me as if I had myself written the book, in some former life, so sincerely it spoke to my thought and experience.
Strana 383 - The sincerity and marrow of the man reaches to his sentences. I know not anywhere the book that seems less written. It is the language of conversation transferred to a book. Cut these words, and they would bleed ; they are vascular and alive.
Strana 470 - Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book ; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise ; holding things because they are things.
Strana 322 - The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly: — Yet he that can endure To follow with allegiance a fallen lord, Does conquer him that did his master conquer, And earns a place i
Strana 450 - It does not appear that he listened at keyholes, or at least that he was caught at it. In short, when you have penetrated through all the circles of power and splendor, you were not dealing with a gentleman, at last; but with an impostor and a rogue; and he fully deserves the epithet of Jupiter Scapin, or a sort of Scamp Jupiter.
Strana 408 - ... and King James, and the Essexes, Leicesters, Burleighs, and Buckinghams ; and lets pass, without a single valuable note, the founder of another dynasty, which alone will cause the Tudor dynasty to be remembered, — the man who carries the Saxon race in him by the inspiration which feeds him, and on whose thoughts the foremost people of the world are now for some ages to be nourished, and minds to receive this and not another bias. A popular player, — nobody suspected he was the poet of the...