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" Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. "
The Praise of Folly: And Other Papers - Page 105
by Bliss Perry - 1923 - 230 pages
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Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume 2

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,...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

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,...
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Essays, orations and lectures

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,...
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Nature; Addresses, and Lectures

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,...
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Massachusetts Quarterly Review, Volume 3

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,...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 35

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1850 - 612 pages
...to defer never to the popular cry. Lethim not quiet his belief that n pop кип is a pop guD.though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadinese, in severo abstraction, let him hold by himself; add observation to observation,...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 23

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...
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Miscellanies: Embracing Nature, Addresses, and Lectures

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,...
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The Collected Works of ... P. ...

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,...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays ..., Volume 2

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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