 I have never got over my surprise that I should have been born into the most estimable place in all the world, and in the very nick of time too.  Complete Works - Page 336by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | 1883 - 884 pages
...like slaves. He was a good Abbot Sampson, and carried a counsel in his breast. " Again and again 1 congratulate myself on my so-called poverty. I could...all the world, and in the very nick of time, too." There 's an optimist for yon ! I regard these philanthropists as themselves the effects of the age... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1873 - 388 pages
...light." " God could not be unkind to me if he should try. I love best to have each thing in its season, doing without it at all other times. It is the greatest...in all the world, and in the very nick of time too. I heard one speak to-day of his sense of awe at the thought of God, and suggested to him that awe was... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 404 pages
...Fourier said, Indulge. Fourier was of the opinion of St. Evremond ; abstinence from pleasure seemed to him a great sin. Fourier was very French indeed....into the most estimable place in all the world, and ill the very nick of time too." There 's an optimist for you. I regard these philanthropists as themselves... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 434 pages
...and pertina•y <j:; ffjr. '., clous §axonTbelief the purest ethics. He was more <* <• <. ts i" real and practically believing in them than any of...all the world, and in the very nick of time too." There 's an optimist for you. I regard these philanthropists as themselves the effects of the age in... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 400 pages
...blood and pertinacious Saxon belief the purest ethics. He was more real and practically believing hi them than any of his company, and fortified you at...all the world, and in the very nick of time too." There 's an optimist for you. I regard these philanthropists as themselves the effects of the age in... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 636 pages
...lot, as he found it, appears in his journal for 1856: "God could not be unkind to me if he should try. I have never got over my surprise that I should have...all the world, and in the very nick of time too." Page 470, note I. This passage brings up the lines in " May-Day " beginning — Ah! well I mind the... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - 1884 - 394 pages
...MARCUS ANTONINUS, I LOVE best to have each thing in its season, doing without it at all other times. I have never got over my surprise that I should have...in all the world, and in the very nick of time too. He knoweth the way that I take. — JOB xxiii. 10. Man's goings are of the Lord; how can a man then... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1892 - 488 pages
...while you are pleased to get knowledge and culture, I am delighted to think I am getting rid of them. I have never got over my surprise that I should have...all the world, and in the very nick of time, too. Dec. 5, 1858. How singularly ornamented is that salamander. Its brightest side, its yellow belly, sprinkled... | |
 | 1895 - 452 pages
...every age has its special, splendid opportunities. That is a fine, cheerful saying of Thoreau. — ' I have never got over my surprise that I should have...all the world, and in the very nick of time, too.' ' Diana says that these are excellent sentiments, and she would receive them standing, and in silence,... | |
 | Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock - 1895 - 458 pages
...every age has its special, splendid opportunities. That is a fine, cheerful saying of Thoreau, — ' I have never got over my surprise that I should have...all the world, and in the very nick of time, too.' ' Diana says that these are excellent sentiments, and she would receive them standing, and in silence,... | |
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