 An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony; the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome"; and all history resolves...  The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Página 49por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 416 páginas
...and the centers of the Avorld's advancement. " An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man," and " all history resolves itself very easily into...the biography of a few stout and earnest persons." 2 " Mankind have, he says, in all ages, attached themselves to a few persons, who, either by the quality... | |
 | Alfred Janes - 1882 - 72 páginas
...Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome;" and all history resolves itself very easily into the...peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity boy, a bastard, or an interloper, in the world which exists for him. But the man in the street,... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 páginas
...of Fox ; Methodism of Wesley ; Abolition of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called " the height of Rome ;" and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. NOCTURNAL SKETCH. THOMAS HOOD. JgVEN is come; and from the dark Park, hark, The signal of the setting... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 páginas
...Fox ; Methodism, of Wesley ; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome ; " and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and eaffne&t persons. _i Let la, man then know his worth, and keep things TtejQiis, feet. Let him not peep... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1884 - 626 páginas
...protests against the merging our separate beings into indolent conformity with a majority. Let a man know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let...peep, or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of an interloper in the world which exists for him. Beneath opinions, habits, customs he seeks the spirit... | |
 | Charles Henry Winston, Thomas Randolph Price, D. Lee Powell, John Meredith Strother, H. H. Harris, John P. McGuire, Rodes Massie, William Fayette Fox, Harry Fishburne Estill (F.), Richard Ratcliffe Farr, John Lee Buchanan, George R. Pace - 1884 - 1242 páginas
...sympathies which these evoke. To the juvenile reader all history is biography." "All history," says Emerson, "resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons." 16. " Of all departments of early teaching," says Bain, " none is so unmanageable as history. Its protean... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 páginas
...Fox; Methodism, of Wesley ; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called " the height of Rome ; " and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons, R Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk... | |
 | Henry Clay Trumbull - 1889 - 210 páginas
...steps as a train of clients. A man CfEsar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. . . . And all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons." Froude, speaking of the aroused and consecrated man of character, who is fairly devoted to the right,... | |
 | Dayaran Gidumal Shahani - 1889 - 472 páginas
...fatal shadows that walk by us still." § 0 m 1 1 g : PRINTED AT THE " FORT PRINTING- PRESS.'1 BY [ " All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons."] DEDICATED TO ALL EARNEST WORKERS IN THE CAUSE HINDU SOCIAL REFORM, OF MY object in writing a few prefatory... | |
 | 1890 - 1148 páginas
...offers an almost perfect model of what such a book should be. It illustrates Emerson's saying that ' All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons,' by condensing the political history of England for a generation into the Twelve Etiylith Statesmen... | |
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