ambition with this incredible tenderness for black folk a thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home.' Rough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, —... Essays - Page 53by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 271 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1841 - 408 pages
...wood-chopper: be good-natured and modest; have that grace; and never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black...affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it—else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached, as the counteraction of the doctrine... | |
| 1841 - 768 pages
...woodchopper : be good-natured and modest: have that grace; and never varnish your hard uncharitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black...thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home.' Yet taking the whole strain of the book, we should think our Author set too little by philanthropic... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...wood-chopper; be goodnatured and modest; have that grace; and never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black...affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it—else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...wood-chopper : be good-natured and modest: have that grace; and never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black...affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it—else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...wood-chopper: be good-natured and modest: have that grace; and never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black...affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it—else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...wood-chopper : be good-natured and modest: have that grace ; and never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black...some edge to it, — else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine of love when that pules and whines. I... | |
| 1850 - 548 pages
...aversion." " No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature, the only wrong what is against it." " Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love." " Your goodness must have some edge to it." " Do your work and you shall reinforce yourself." " A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...wood-chopper: be good-natured and modest: have that grace; and never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black...affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it—else it is none. The doctrine of hatred must be preached as the counteraction of the doctrine... | |
| Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...wood-chopper: be good-natured and modest: have that grace; and never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black...thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home." Hough and graceless would be such greeting, but truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 418 pages
...wood-chopper: be good-natured and modest: have that grace; and never varnish your hard, uncharitable ambition with this incredible tenderness for black...thousand miles off. Thy love afar is spite at home.' " Nepotism in official men, however exalted, is an offence, no doubt; but a transcendental horror of... | |
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