| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 páginas
...becomes him to feel all confidence in himself, and to defer never 7 to the popular cry. He and he only knows the world. The world of any moment is the merest...that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,... | |
| 1849 - 448 páginas
...pure efflux of the Deity is not his ; — cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame •• The world of any moment is the merest appearance....that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,... | |
| 1851 - 608 páginas
...though worried by packs of sharp-scented, loud- bay ing assailants; nor, on the other hand, would he quit his belief " that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirmed it to be the crack of doom." Great, therefore, was the stay and solace... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 páginas
...rise above the world of appearances, " to hold to their belief that a squib is a squib, though the honourable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom ;" but their business is not to declaim like Seneca, to celebrate the divine beauty of virtue with... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 páginas
...becomes him to feel all confidence in himself, and to defer never 9 to the popular cry. He and he only knows the world. The world of any moment is the merest...that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 páginas
...knows the world. The world of any moment is the merest appearance. Some great decorum, some fetisl of a government, some ephemeral trade, or war, or...that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 páginas
...becomes him to feel all confidence in himself, and to defer never to the popular cry. He and he only knows the world. The world of any moment is the merest...that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 páginas
...becomes him to feel all confidence in himself, and to defer never to the popular cry. He and he only knows the world. The world of any moment is the merest...that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 326 páginas
...The odds are that the whole question is not worth the poorest thought which the scholar bas lost iu listening to the controversy. Let him not quit his...that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of Ihe earth affirm it to bo the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, iu severe abstraction,... | |
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