Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street does not know a star in the sky. The solstice he does not observe ; the equinox he knows as little ; and the whole bright calendar of the year... Essays - Página 86por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 371 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Frances Melville Perry - 1906 - 252 páginas
...fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun. A Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the...calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind. His notebooks impair his memory; his libraries overload his wit; the insurance office increases the number... | |
| Harriet Louise Keeler, Mary Elizabeth Adams - 1906 - 300 páginas
...the hour by the sun. A Greenwich nautical almanac he has, as so being sure of the information when it wants it, the man in the street does not know a star...calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind. His note-books impair his memory ; his libraries overload his wit ; the insurance office increases the... | |
| Harriet Louise Keeler, Mary Elizabeth Adams - 1906 - 296 páginas
...almanac he has, as so being sure of the information when it wants it, the man in the street dqeanot know a star in the sky. The solstice he does not observe...calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind. His note-books impair his memory; his libraries overload his wit ; the insurance office increases the number... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 páginas
...lost the skill to tell the hour by the sun. A Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the...calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind. His note-books impair his memory, his libraries overload his wit, the insurance office increases the number... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 páginas
...lost the skill to tell the hour by the sun. A Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the...calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind. His note-books impair his memory, his libraries overload his wit, the insurance office increases the number... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1907 - 578 páginas
...lost the skill to tell the hour by the sun. A Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the...calendar of the year is without a dial in his mind. His note-books impair his memory, his libraries overload his wit, the insurance office increases the number... | |
| Martha Evans Martin - 1907 - 314 páginas
...is only too much justice in Emerson's reproach that now, in • 6 these days of nautical almanacs, "the man in the street does not know a star in the...calendar of the year, is without a dial in his mind." The explanation of this difference is that people in earlier times, being more out of doors than the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 páginas
...fails of the skill to tell the hour by the sun. A Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the...street does not know a star in the sky. The solstice 1 he does not observe ; the equinox 2 he knows as little ; and 10 the whole bright calendar of the... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1907 - 552 páginas
...lost the skill to tell the hour by the sun. A Greenwich nautical almanac he has, and so being sure of the information when he wants it, the man in the street docs not know a star in the sky. The solstice he does not observe, the equinox he knows as little;... | |
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