| Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 264 pages
...question is not worth the poorest thought which the scholar has lost in listening to the controversy. Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honourable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...question is not worth the poorest thought which the scholar has lost in listening to the controversy. Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honourable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...question is not worth the poorest thought which the scholar has lost in listening to the controversy. Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honourable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...question is not worth the poorest thought which the scholar has lost in listening to the controversy. Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun,...honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction, let him hold by himself; add observation to observation,... | |
| 1849 - 448 pages
...question is not worth the poorest thought which the scholar has lost in listening to the controversy. Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun,...honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction, let him hold by himself: add observation to observation,... | |
| 1851 - 608 pages
...though worried by packs of sharp-scented, loud- bay ing assailants; nor, on the other hand, would he quit his belief " that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirmed it to be the crack of doom." Great, therefore, was the stay and solace of his heart of hearts... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 pages
...question is not worth the poorest thought which the scholar has lost in listening to the controversy. Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun,...honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction, let him hold by himself; add observation to observation,... | |
| Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 pages
...question is not worth the poorest thought which tHe scholar has lost in listening to the controversy. Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honourable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...question is not worth the poorest thought which the scholar has lost in listening to the controversy. Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honourable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,... | |
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