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 101by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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