| 1840 - 532 pages
...cart, and sinks into a farmer, instead of man on a farm. The tradesman scarce gives an ideal value to his work, but is ridden by the routine of his craft, and his soul is subject to dollars. The priest becomes a form ; the attorney a statute book ; the mechanic... | |
| 1844 - 452 pages
...strut about, so many walking monsters, — a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man. The priest becomes a form, the attorney a statute-book,...mechanic a machine, the sailor a rope of the ship." As a consequence of this, also, work becomes uninteresting and odious. After we have become thoroughly... | |
| 1844 - 460 pages
...strut about, so many walking monsters, — a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man. The priest becomes a form, the attorney a statute-book,...mechanic a machine, the sailor a rope of the ship." As a consequence of this, also, work becomes uninteresting and odious. After we have become thoroughly... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...ministry. He sees his bushel and his cart, and nothing beyond; and sinks into the farmer, instead of Man on the farm. The tradesman scarcely ever gives an...statutebook ; the mechanic, a machine; the sailor, a rope of a ship. In this view of him, as Man Thinking, the whole theory of his office is contained. Him Nature... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...ministry. He sees his bushel and his cart, and nothing beyond, and sinks into the farmer, instead of Man on the farm. The tradesman scarcely ever gives an...; the mechanic, a machine ; the sailor, a rope of a ship. In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pages
...ministry. He sees his bushel and his cart, and nothing beyond, and sinks into the farmer, instead of Man on the farm. The tradesman scarcely ever gives an...; the mechanic, a machine ; the sailor, a rope of a ship. In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated . intellect. In the right state,... | |
| John William Donaldson - 1850 - 732 pages
...ministry. He sees his bushel and his cart, and nothing beyond, and sinks into the farmer, instead of Man on the farm. The tradesman scarcely ever gives an...; the mechanic, a machine ; the sailor, a rope of a ship." It was for this reason that the clear-headed Greeks denied the name of education (-¡ratafia)... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1852 - 450 pages
...seldom cheered by any idea of the true dignity of his ministry. He sinks into the farmer and is not man on the farm. The tradesman scarcely ever gives an ideal worth to his work, but is ridden by the nature of his craft. The lawyer becomes a statute-book, the mechanic a machine.' " Here, however, we... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...ministry. He sees his bushel and his cart, and nothing beyond, and sinks into the farmer, instead of Man on the farm. The tradesman scarcely ever gives an...; the mechanic, a machine ; the sailor, a rope of a ship. In this distribution of functions, the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...ministry. He sees his bushel and his cart, and nothing beyond, and sinks into the farmer, instead of Man on the farm. The tradesman scarcely ever gives an ideal worth to his work, tut is ridden by the routine of his craft, and the soul is subject to dollars. The priest becomes a... | |
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