 ... for creation. We are always in peril, always in a bad plight, just on the edge of destruction and only to be saved by invention and courage. This vigor was guarded and tempered by the coldest prudence and punctuality. A thunderbolt in the attack,...  Complete Works - Strana 226autor/autoři: Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 270 str.
...prudence and punctuality. A thunderbolt in the attack, he was fouud invulnerable in his intrenchmcnts. His very attack was never the inspiration of courage,...ambition," he says, " was great, but was of a cold nature." There is a passage in one of his conversations with Las Casas : " As to moral courage, I have rarely... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 204 str.
...courage, but the result of calculation. His idea the bei& defence consists in being still the attacki party. " My ambition," he says, " was great, but was...nature." In one of his conversations with Las Casas lit remarked : " As to moral courage, I have rarely me with the two-o'clock-in-the-morning kind; I... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1855 - 348 str.
...prudence and punctuality. A thunderbolt in the attack, he was found invulnerable in his intrenchments. His very attack was never the inspiration of courage,...result of calculation. His idea of the best defence consisted in being still the attacking party. " My ambition," he says, " was great, but was of a cold... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 320 str.
...prudence and punctuality. A thunderbolt in the attack, he was found invulnerable in his intrenchments. His very attack was never the inspiration of courage,...result of calculation His idea of the best defence consisted iu being still the attacking party. " My ambition," he says, " was great, but was of a cold... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1857 - 300 str.
...prudence and punctuality. A thunderbolt in the attack, he was found invulnerable in his intrenchments. His very attack was never the inspiration of courage,...in being still the attacking party. " My ambition," lie says, "was great, but was of a cold nature." In one of his conversations with Las Casas, he remarked,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 350 str.
...prudence and punctuality. A thunderbolt in the attack, he was found invulnejabje in his intrenchments. His very attack was never the inspiration of courage,...result of calculation, His idea of the best defence consisted in being still the attacking party. " My ambition," he says, " was great, but was of a cold... | |
 | Graduated series - 1861 - 504 str.
...prudence and punctuality. A thunderbolt in the attack, he was found invulnerable in his intrenchments. His very attack was never the inspiration of courage,...result of calculation. His idea of the best defence consisted in being always the attacking party. " My ambition," he says, " was great, but was of a cold... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1861 - 352 str.
...courage, but the result of calculation His idea of the best defence consisted in being still the attackirg party. "My ambition," he says, " was great, but was of a cold nature^" 9. Everything depended on the nicety of his combinations ; the stars were not more punctual than his... | |
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 str.
...punctuality. A thunderbolt in the attack, he was found invulnerable in his intrenchments. His very attack1 was never the inspiration of courage, but the result of calculation. His idea of the best defence 1 consisted in being always the attacking party. "My ambition," he says, "was great, but was of a cold... | |
 | 1866 - 408 str.
...prudence and punctuality. A thunderbolt in the attack, he was found invulnerable in his intrenchments. His very attack was never the inspiration of courage,...result of calculation. His idea of the best defence consisted in being always the attacking party. " My ambition," he says, " was great, but was of a cold... | |
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