 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
 | John Swett - 1880 - 366 páginas
...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... | |
 | 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
...and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man ; as, the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism,...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 - 1883 - 648 páginas
...and cleave to his genius, that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of man. An institution nts itself nothing, and abandons itself to the instruction...renounce aspiration, accept the actual for the necessary, 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 - 1883 - 352 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 - 1900 - 356 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 - 1883 - 350 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,...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... | |
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 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...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 - 556 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, of the Hermit Antony; the Eeformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 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,... | |
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