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
| Moncure Daniel Conway - 1909 - 484 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 is not amelioration. For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts and... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 páginas
...as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes ; 20 it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich,...scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For everthing that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. What... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 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 e\erything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses 10 old instincts.... | |
| Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 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,...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 - 1915 - 200 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 some- 5 thing is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts.... | |
| Alice Hubbard - 1918 - 382 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,...amelioration. For everything that is given, something is taken s» Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading,... | |
| Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 422 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... | |
| Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 416 páginas
...undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, RALPH WALDO EMERSON 323 it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not...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 - 1921 - 584 páginas
...is 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 poverty is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 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... | |
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