 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 New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep...  Moncure D. Conway: Addresses and Reprints, 1850-1907 - Page 6by Moncure Daniel Conway - 1909 - 444 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...every thing that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing,...the health of the two men, and you shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength. If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with... | |
 | 1848 - 636 pages
...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,...the health of the two men, and you shall see that this aboriginal strength the white man has lost. If the traveller tell ue truly, strike the savage... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...every thing that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing,...the health of the two men, and you shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength. If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 354 pages
...every thing that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing,...the health of the two men, and you shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength. If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1853 - 214 pages
...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,...the health of the two men, and you shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength. If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1863 - 388 pages
...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,...and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New-Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and the undivided twentieth part of a shed... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1863 - 380 pages
...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,...and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New-Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and the undivided twentieth part of a shed... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...For everything that is given, something is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the wellclad, reading, writing,...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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...everything that is given, something is taken, "^society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the wellclad, reading, writing,...with a watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange in Jus pocket, and the naked New-Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...For every thing that is given something is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing,...compare the health of the two men and you shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength. If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with... | |
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