 ... 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 - Página 226por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 270 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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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