 Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on...  Essays - Page 46by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold. " Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception...the rule. There is the man and his virtues. Men do n hat is called a good action, at Home piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar, which by-and-by I shall have the manhood to withhold. 8. Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception...apology or extenuation of their living in the world, — as invalids and the insane pay a high board. Their virtues are penances. I do not wish to expiate,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by-and-by I shall have the manhood to withhold. Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception...apology or extenuation of their living in the world, — as invalids and the insane pay a high board. Their virtues are penances. I do not wish to expiate,... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1841 - 618 pages
...presence of all opposition as if every thing were titular and ephemeral but he." — p. 50. And, again, " Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception...apology or extenuation of their living in the world, — as invalids and the insane pay a high board. Their virtues are penances. I do not wish to expiate,... | |
 | 1841 - 640 pages
...virtues. Men do what is called a good action, n some piece of courage or charity, much as they would nay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade....apology or extenuation of their living in the world, — as invalids and the insane pay a high board. Their virtues are penances. I do not wish to expiate.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 354 pages
...succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by I shall have the manhood to withold. Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception...apology or extenuation of their living in the world, — as invalids and the insane pay a high board. Their virtues are penances. I do not wish to expiate,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by-and-by I shall have the manhood to withhold. Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception...as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world,—as invalids and the insane pay a high board. Their virtues are penances. I do not wish to... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect •sweetness the independence of solitude. Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception...as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world—as invalids and the insane pay a high board. Their virtues are penances. I do not wish to expiate,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo [essays] Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by-and-by I shall have the manhood to withhold. Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception...apology or extenuation of their living in the world, — as invalids and the insane pay a high board. Their virtues are penances. I do not wish to expiate,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 270 pages
...succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by-and-by I shall have the manhood to withhold. Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule. There is the man ami his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as... | |
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