 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
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 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, it is scientific ; but this change is not 505 amelioration. For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 448 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,...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 - 1902 - 66 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... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 476 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,...in his pocket, and the naked New-Zealander, whose prop• erty is a club, a ' spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under! But... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 466 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 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 - 1903 - 460 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 - 1904 - 362 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... | |
 | John Horne - 1904 - 172 páginas
...Society "Society never advances. Advance? jt recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. . . . Compare the health of the well-clad, reading, thinking American and the naked New Zealander,... | |
 | Mary Minerva Barrows - 1905 - 208 páginas
...as we think of them only as fit for the copy-book there is not much use in us. Theodore Roosevelt, For everything that is given something is taken. Society...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 - 1905 - 70 páginas
...only apparent, like the workers, of a treadmill *3* 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... | |
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