 For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked...  The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Página 264por Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Vlad Dimitrov - 2003 - 218 páginas
...recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich,...is scientific; but this change is not amelioration" (quoted from Emerson's essay "Self-reliance" written in 1841 and available through the world wide web... | |
 | Lawrence Buell - 2004 - 420 páginas
...about social action. Indeed society is caricatured as a "wave" that "never advances": "it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich,...is scientific; but this change is not amelioration" (4849). Still, Emerson insists that "a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 páginas
...recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich,...scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 264 páginas
...recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is Christianized, it is rich,...Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. :i Yet again Emerson finds a way to redefine poetry and to express his reverence for it. Poetry is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 páginas
...is only apparent like the workers of a treadmill. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich,...scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What... | |
 | David Farrier - 2007 - 290 páginas
...potency: Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. [ . . . ] Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts....and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep... | |
 | Tom Walsh - 2007 - 200 páginas
...recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich,...scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What... | |
 | Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 páginas
...recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich,...scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.... | |
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