Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his genius that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of man. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as Monachism,... Essays: First Series - Página 53por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1852 - 333 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Joel Myerson - 2000 - 336 páginas
...demonstrate Emerson's own proposition that "[a]n 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."1 Moreover, many of the essays in the book deal chronologically with Emerson's development,... | |
| Larry J. Reynolds, Gordon Hutner - 2000 - 272 páginas
...caricatures of Emerson in Melville's writings, this "transcendental" view is decidedly non-Emersonian. "All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons," Emerson wrote in "Self-Reliance" (267), privileging the individual above cyclical events. Both the... | |
| Julius Rubin - 2000 - 277 páginas
...accomplish his design; and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients. . . . An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as Monachism of the Hermit Anthony; the Reformation, of Luther, Quakerism of Fox; Methodism of Wesley. 1 Author, theologian, publisher,... | |
| David Wittenberg - 2002 - 300 páginas
...confounded with virtue and the possible of man. 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. (E, 267) Avoid influences, be original, and you provide yourself the opportunity to create yourself... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 páginas
...and cleave to his genius that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of man. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as. Monachism,...earnest persons. Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 páginas
...confounded with virtue and the possible of man. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism,...earnest persons. Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy,... | |
| Kathleen Spaltro, Noeline Bridge - 2005 - 336 páginas
...Whether or not, as Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "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," the lengthened shadow of England's royal family comes very near to being a history of England itself.... | |
| 2005 - 494 páginas
...confounded with virtue and the possible of man. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as ... the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons."... | |
| Adam Hochschild - 2006 - 500 páginas
...Clarkson." "An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson, ". . . the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. . . . All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons."... | |
| Tom Walsh - 2007 - 200 páginas
...and cleave to his genius that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of man. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, Monachism,...earnest persons. Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charityboy,... | |
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