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" I FIND the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, — mettle and bottom. "
Complete Works - Page 101
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884
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The Guardian, Volume 30

1879 - 442 pages
...tenderhearted. Rome was not. Truth in private life, untruth in public, marks these home-loving men. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom. The only thing the English value is pluck. The cabmen have it ; the merchants have it ; the bishops...
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English Traits

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 200 pages
...marching in phalanx, lockstep, foot after foot, file after file of heroes, ten thousand deep. CHAPTEE VI. MANNEKS. I FIND the Englishman to be him of all men...at Liverpool, a gentleman, in describing to me the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, happened to say, " Lord Clarendon has pluck like a cock, and will fight...
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English Traits

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 200 pages
...lockstep, foot after foot, file after file of heroes, ten thousand deer CHAPTER VI. MANNEES. I riND the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest...at Liverpool, a gentleman, in describing to me the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, happened to say, " Lord Clarendon has pluck like a cock, and will fight...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 48

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1856 - 766 pages
...Englishman ' to be him of all others who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves which they value in their horses, mettle and bottom. ' ' On the day of my arrival in Liverpool, a gentleman, in describing to me the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, happened to say : '...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volumes 3-4

1857 - 588 pages
...truthfulness of the following passages on Manners ? — " I find the Englishman to be of all men he who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves...what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom. . . . "They are positive, methodical, cleanly, and formal, loving routine and conventional ways, loving...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volumes 3-4

1857 - 588 pages
...following passages on Manners 1 — " I find the Englishman to be of all men he who stands firmest in nis shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom. . . . "They are positive, methodical, cleanly, and formal, loving routine and conventional ways, loving...
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English Traits

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1857 - 204 pages
...lockstep, foot after foot, file after file of heroes, ten thousand deep. CHAPTER VI. MANNERS. I FIMD the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoos. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, mettle and bottom. On the day of my...
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Many thoughts of many minds. Compiled by H. Southgate

Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...for mere comfort and easy healthy relation to people at home. Emtrton. ENGLISHMAN— Vigour of an. I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in their shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, — mettle and bottom. On the...
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The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 504 pages
...phalanx, lockstep, foot after foot, file after file of heroes, ten thousand deep. CHAPTER VI. MANNERS. I FIND the Englishman to be him of all men who stands...at Liverpool, a gentleman, in describing to me the TLiord Lieutenant of Ireland, happened to say, " Lord Clarendon has pluck like a cock, and will fight...
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The North American Review, Volume 129

1879 - 686 pages
...foundations. The first sentence in Emerson's chapter on manners, in his " English Traits," runs, " I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes." If there be truth in that observation, and value in the characteristic it denotes, the credit must...
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