 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
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 444 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... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 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... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 páginas
...recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, d like him New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - 1926 - 1162 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 njt amelioration. For everything that is given something is taken. Society ac- men. The harm of the... | |
 | Louis Wann - 1926 - 564 páginas
...need we copy the contrast between the well-clad, readin.tr. Doric or the Gothic model ? Beauty, con- writing, thinking American, with a watch. a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his an opera-glass, discovered a more splendid pocket, and the naked New Zealander, series of celestial... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1979 - 434 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 - 1983 - 1196 páginas
...is christianized, it is rich, it is scientif1c; 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... | |
 | Clarence J. Karier - 1986 - 492 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,...amelioration. For everything that is given something is taken.37 Although Emerson could not help taking sides on certain pressing issues of his day, such as... | |
 | 1861 - 792 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... | |
 | 1888 - 536 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... | |
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