 If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of...  The Monthly magazine - Página 197de Monthly literary register - 1840Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Richard P. Horwitz - 2001 - 420 páginas
...he has learned that he can swim. If there is any period one would desire to be born in — is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand...old, can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. I read... | |
 | Joseph J. Ellis - 2002 - 276 páginas
...Paradoxes in the Revolutionary Era If there is any period one would desire to be bor n in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand...old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. Ralph... | |
 | Jeffrey P. Sklansky - 2002 - 340 páginas
...is any period one would desire to be born in," wrote Emerson, "is it not the age of Revolution . . . when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?" In his famed 1837 address, "The American Scholar," Emerson had in mind a cultural and... | |
 | Kenneth Sacks - 2003 - 426 páginas
...has learned that he can swim. If there is any period one would desire to be born in, — is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand...old, can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. I read... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 páginas
...echo of the political hopes and fears expressed in The Prelude and in Coleridge's "France: An Ode"), "the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope." In this revolutionary context, Emerson embraces "the common": I read with joy of the auspicious signs... | |
 | Larry Chang - 2006 - 826 páginas
...the Too, Thomas Cleary, tr., 1988 If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side . . . when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This... | |
 | Len Gougeon - 2012 - 280 páginas
...times were electrified by the possibility of positive change. It was indeed, a revolutionary time, "when the old and the new stand side by side, and...energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope." 119 Now was the time when the voice of the prophet must be heard. The words that he wrote many years... | |
 | Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 páginas
...he has learned that he can swim. If there is any period one would desire to be born in, - is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand...old, can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. I read... | |
| |
