I had occasion to say the other day to Elizabeth Hoar that I like best the strong and worthy persons, like her father, who support the social order without hesitation or misgiving. I like these; they never incommode us by exciting grief, pity, or perturbation... Studies of a Biographer - Page 153by Leslie Stephen - 1902Full view - About this book
| Massachusetts Historical Society - 1899 - 574 pages
...one would have approved more heartily than he this remark of Emerson: "The professed philanthropists are an altogether odious set of people, whom one would shun as the worst of bores and canters." His interest in this Society the published Proceedings will in some measure show,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1887 - 456 pages
...I like these; they never incommode us by exciting grief, pity, or perturbation of any sort. But tbe professed philanthropists, it is strange and horrible...set of people, whom one would shun as the worst of bores and canters. I have the same objection to dogmatism in Reform as to dogmatism in Conservatism.... | |
| James Elliot Cabot - 1887 - 446 pages
...like these ; they never incommode us by exciting grief, pity, or perturbation of any sort. But the professed philanthropists, it is strange and horrible...altogether odious set of people, whom one would shun at the worst of bores and canters. I have the same objection to dogmatism in Reform as to dogmatism... | |
| James Ford Rhodes - 1892 - 526 pages
...them right. Emerson, with the abolitionists in his mind, said that " the professed philanthropists are an altogether odious set of people, whom one would shun as the worst of bores and canters." ' But his respect for Garrison grew with his knowledge, and he wittily said of... | |
| John Jay Chapman - 1898 - 270 pages
...I like these; they never incommode us by exciting grief, pity, or perturbation of any sort. But the professed philanthropists, it is strange and horrible...set of people, whom one would shun as the worst of bores and canters. But my conscience, my unhappy conscience respects that hapless class who see the... | |
| John Jay Chapman - 1898 - 276 pages
...I like these; they never incommode us by exciting grief, pity, or perturbation of any sort. But the professed philanthropists, it is strange and horrible...an altogether odious set of people, whom one would Si shun as the worst of bores and canters. But my conscience, my unhappy conscience respects that hapless... | |
| John Jay Chapman - 1898 - 264 pages
...I like these; they never incommode us by exciting grief, pity, or perturbation of any sort. But the professed philanthropists, it is strange and horrible...an altogether odious set of people, whom one would S 1 shun as the worst of bores and canters. But my conscience, my unhappy conscience respects that... | |
| Richard Bagot - 1901 - 184 pages
...truth, till even spontaneous wickedness seems to be better than compulsory goodness. Each man, he sajs, should "plant himself indomitably upon his instincts."...must be a product of, not dependent upon, a bond. Tha "union is only perfect when all the unities are isolated." When each man sees the truth for himself,... | |
| George Rice Carpenter - 1903 - 344 pages
...I like these; they never incommode us by exciting grief, pity, or perturbation of any sort. But the professed philanthropists, it is strange and horrible...set of people, whom one would shun as the worst of bores and canters. " l Like a philosopher, too, he saw below the surface of the agitation, and, realizing... | |
| Brander Matthews - 1909 - 380 pages
...persons who support the social order without hesitation or misgiving," asserted that " the profest philanthropists, it is strange and horrible to say,...set of people whom one would shun as the worst of bores and canters." Here is a striking unanimity of opinion, and if we are justified in suspecting... | |
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