 | 1838 - 536 pages
...themselves not in the state of mind of their fathers, and regret the coming state as untried." " If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution ? " " One of the auspicious signs of coming days is the fact, that the same movement which effected... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1840 - 694 pages
...America ( Au* By Thomas Carlylc. London : James Fraser, Regent Street. •gust 31st, 1837), " If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not in the age of revolution ? when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared;... | |
 | 1889 - 876 pages
...existence of their city is unproven. HWP and LD FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION. EMERSON says, " If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of revolution, . . . when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope ? " New England, for many years before the civil... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...as a boy dreads the water before he has learned that he can swim. If there is any period one wemld desire to be born in, — is it not the age of Revolution ; whW the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being epmpared ; when the energies of all... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 326 pages
...coming state as untried ; as a boy dreads the water before he has learned that he can swim. If there is any period one would desire to be born in, — is...historic glories of the old can be compensated by the ricli possibilities of the new era ? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 328 pages
...state as unT" vtjied_i as a boy dreads the water before he has learned that he can swim. If there is any period one would desire to be born in, — is...compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time,like alltimes^is a very_.gflod one, if we but know whatjo dp_with_iL I read with joy some of the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 658 pages
...coming state as untried ; as a boy dreads the water before he has learned that he can swim. If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not...admit of being compared ; when the energies of all mea are searched by fear and by hope ; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 388 pages
...coming state as untricd ; as a boy dreads the water before he has learned that he ean swim. If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not...the old and the new stand side by side and admit of bcing compared ; when the energics of all men are searehed by fear and by hope ; when the historic... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 328 pages
...coming state as untried ; as a boy dreads the water before he has learned that he can swim. If there is any period one would desire to be born in, — is...by hope; when the historic glories of the old can he compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era ? This time, like all times, is a very good... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 410 pages
...coming state as untried; as a boy dreads the water before he has learned that he can swim. If there is any period one would desire to be born in — is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and tlio now stand side by side, and admit of being compared ; when the energies of all men are searched... | |
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If there ia any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories... 
