 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 444 páginas
...nature in us to the same degree it is in them; then shall we meet as water with water; and if we should not meet them then, we shall not want them, for we...reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men. Hen have sometimes exchanged names with their friends, as if they would signify that in their friend... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1928 - 280 páginas
...heart, take it sadly home to thee, that there will and can be no co-operation. Ibid., J, VII, 140. IN the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men. Ibid., E, I, 1 1 6. SYMPATHY, BENEVOLENCE ALL are apt to shrink from those that lean upon them. Halifax,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth - 1990 - 404 páginas
...like religion, & not to be crushed into corners, or, like a postillion's dinner, eaten on the run. Love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men. There are those whom my lawless fancy even cannot strip of beauty, & who never for a moment seem to... | |
 | Philip Leroy Culbertson - 1992 - 188 páginas
...the gods. . . . The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one. ... In the last analysis, love is only the reflection...signify that in their friend each loved his own soul. Intimate same-sex friendships, like that of Jonathan and David, are the training ground for a love... | |
 | Daniel T. O'Hara - 1992 - 348 páginas
...afford to offer, beyond truthfulness, "tenderness" (348). This is because, "in the last analysis," such "love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men" (352). Unfortunately, Emerson, like Montaigne, does not believe women are capable of friendship with... | |
 | Suzanne Stern-Gillet - 1995 - 248 páginas
...of the moral stature of the other. Emerson could well have had Aristotle in mind when he wrote that "In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man's own worthiness from other men." 14 The counter-intuitive implications, on the subject of love and friendship, of Aristotle's description... | |
 | Christopher Newfield - 1996 - 292 páginas
...nature in us to the same degree it is in them, then shall we mix as water with water, & if we should not meet them then, we shall not want them, for we are already they." 27 Friendship overcomes the failures of existing social relations to establish a genuine intimacy between... | |
 | Christopher Newfield - 1996 - 294 páginas
...nature in us to the same degree it is in them, then shall we mix as water with water, & if we should not meet them then, we shall not want them, for we are already they."2" Friendship overcomes the failures of existing social relations to establish a genuine intimacy... | |
 | Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 páginas
...nature in us to the same degree as in them; then shall we meet as water with water; and if we should not meet them then, we shall not want them, for we are already they. (Essays, 351, 352) At the same time, however, that he repudiates the concept of property as insufficient... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2006 - 98 páginas
...that clump of waving grass that divides the brook? Let us not vilify, but raise it to that standard. The higher the style we demand of friendship, of course...the less easy to establish it with flesh and blood. Prudence does not go behind nature and ask whence it is? It takes the laws of the world whereby man's... | |
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... no consuetudes or habits of society, would be of any avail to establish us in such relations with them as we desire, —but solely the uprise of nature in us to the same degree it is in them; then shall we meet as water with water; and if we should... 
