Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus, Methodism and Unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, but rest on the same foundations of wonder as the town of Troy, and the temple of Delphos, and are as swiftly passing away. Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 37by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876Full view - About this book
| 1896 - 818 pages
...amid the roughened waters. " Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and the caucus," may, as Emerson says, " rest on the same foundations of wonder as the town of Troy and the Temple of Delphos," but, personally, I am more susceptible to Troy, or even to the Chateau d'lf, than I am to banks, of... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...middle age ; then in Calvinism. Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus, methodism and unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, but rest on the...boats, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues, and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...middle age : then in Calvinism. Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus, methodism and unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, but rest on the...boats, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues, and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon,... | |
| 1846 - 492 pages
...middle age ; then in Calvinism. Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus, methodism and unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, but rest on the...boats and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues, and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1855 - 284 pages
...newspaper and caucus, methodism and unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, THE POET. " 41 but rest on the same foundations of wonder as the...boats, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues, and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon,... | |
| Robert Alfred Vaughan - 1858 - 402 pages
...every-day and domestic themes for his art. Thus Emerson, in one of his Essays, writes as follows : — ' Our log-rolling, our stumps and their politics, our...boats, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trade, the southern planting, tiie western clearing,... | |
| Robert Alfred Vaughan - 1858 - 390 pages
...every-day and domestic themes for his art. Thus Emerson, in one of his Essays, writes as follows : — ' Our log-rolling, our stumps and their politics, our...boats, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 286 pages
...middle age ; then in Calvinism. Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus, methodism and unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, but rest on the...boats, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues, and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon,... | |
| Robert Vaughan - 1864 - 330 pages
...everyday and domestic themes for his art. Thus Emerson, in one of his Essays, writes as follows : — ' Our log-rolling, our stumps and their politics, our...boats, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon... | |
| Robert Alfred Vaughan - 1864 - 326 pages
...everyday and domestic themes for his art. Thus Emerson, in one of his Essays, writes as follows : — ' Our log-rolling, our stumps and their politics, our...boats, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon... | |
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