...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,...

...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,...

...the masses. Leaders of the American West: Who Are Their Heroes? John J. Gardiner & Kathryn E. Jones All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. Ralph Waldo Emerson Steadily the frontier of settlement advanced and carried with it individualism,...

...disagreeing with the Emerson who wrote that "an institution is the lengthened shadow of a man" and that "all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons."38 A few months after Eliot published "Sweeney Erect" he gave a lecture on modern poetry in...

...Bloom, "The Central Man: Emerson, Whitman, Wallace Stevens," The Ringers in the Tower, 223-24. 12. "All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons" ("Self-Reliance," Complete Works 2:61). 13. The position 1 take on the "noble doubt" passage in Nature...

...paragraph of Emerson's essay 'Self-Reliance': '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'. //. 33-8: the Emerson echoes continue: the great soul, he writes, must not bother about consistency:...

...of creating a hypertext version of Gatsby. If it is true, as Emerson writes in "Self-Reliance," that "all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons," then we are witnessing the Bruccoli era. Note For a survey of Bruccoli's life and writings, see the...

...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,...

...William Greenleaf Eliot fulfilled Emerson's ideal of an individual with the power to remake his world. 'All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons,' Emerson said. 'The man must be so much that he must make all circumstances indifferent. Every true...

...well-known essay "Self-Reliance": An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as Monarchism, of the Hermit Antony; the Reformation, of Luther;...the biography of a few stout and earnest persons. (267) In many of these cases, of course, the individuals and movements in question would have in their...