 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
 | George Gilfillan - 1853 - 300 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,...given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, itnd loses old instincts. The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. He... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1863 - 380 páginas
...from Emerson. " Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. .... What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing,...New-Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and the undivided twentieth part of a shed to sleep under ! But compare the health of the two men, and... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1863 - 388 páginas
...from Emerson. " Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. .... What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing,...New-Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and the undivided twentieth part of a shed to sleep under ! But compare the health of the two men, and... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 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,...with a watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange in Jus pocket, and the naked New-Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 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,...thinking American, with a watch, a pencil, and a bill o£ exchange in his pocket, aud the naked New-Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 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 - 1883 - 556 páginas
...on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilised, it is christianised, it is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 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 - 1883 - 356 páginas
...christianized, it is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given something is taken. Society acquires...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 356 páginas
...christianized, it is rich, it is scientific ; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given something is taken. Society acquires...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... | |
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