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
 | 1907
...parties; for, to quote from the wise Emerson: ''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 Republican party did not produce Lincoln; he was here with his principles and his patriotism before... | |
 | National Municipal League - 1907
...parties ; for, to quote from the wise Emerson : "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 Republican party did not produce Lincoln ; he was here with his principles and his patriotism before... | |
 | George Henry Hubbard - 1907 - 507 páginas
...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." The history of all human progress is but the history of the working and influence of character in the... | |
 | John Brown Maclean - 1907 - 187 páginas
...die not dwell, Tho' the Dead to our Dead bid welcome, and we farewell." SWINBURNE. " 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; Abolition, of Clarkson.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 245 páginas
...virtue and the possible 1 of man. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man ; as, Monachism,2 of the Hermit Antony ; the Reformation, of Luther ; Quakerism, of Fox ; Methodism, 5 of Wesley ; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome"; and all history resolves... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 303 páginas
...Methodism, of Wesley ; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called he height of Rome'; and all history / v resolves itself very easily into the * biography of a few stout and earnest Let a man thenjkflojvjhis worth^and __ > keep things , under his fee^~Tj0t him not peep or steal, or... | |
 | 1909
...institution is the lengthened shadow of one man ; as, the Reformation, of Luther ; Quakerism, of Fo* ; Methodism, of Wesley ; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio,...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 - 1912 - 275 páginas
...Reformation, of Luther0 ; Quakerism, of Fox0 ; Methodism, of Wesley0 ; Abolition, of Clarkson.0 Scipio,0 Milton called "the height of Rome"; and all history...the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. 30 18. Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under his feet. Let him not peep or steal, or... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 132 páginas
...cleave s to his genius, that he is confounded with virtue and the possible2 of man. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man ; as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony;3 the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox;4 Methodism, of Wesley;5 Abolition, of Clarkson.6... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 743 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,...the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. RW EMEKSON. — Essays. THE SECRET OF ETERNAL YOUTH To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature.... | |
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