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
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 380 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,... | |
| 1914 - 706 páginas
...institution is the lengthened shadow of on« man, as the Reformation of Luther — Methodism of Wesley. All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. To outward seeming eminent men are the result of fortuitous variation and are similar to the "sports"... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 206 páginas
...cleave to his genius that 55 lie is confounded with virtue and the possible of man. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, Monachism,...persons. ( Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feetA Let him not peep or steal, or skulk up and down with the air of a charity-boy,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 554 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,...Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height oi Rome ;" and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest... | |
| Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 páginas
...his steps as a train of clients. A man Caesar 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. 275 Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or skulk... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 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,... | |
| Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 508 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 - 1903 - 478 páginas
...virtue and the possible of man. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man ; as, Monachtsm, of the Hermit Antony; the Reformation, of Luther;...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 - 1903 - 460 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,...easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons.1 Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 842 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,...Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome ; " andfall history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons.1)... | |
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