 If there is 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 of...  The Monthly magazine - Page 197by Monthly literary register - 1840Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...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 the new stand...old, can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. I read... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...before he has learned that he can swim. If there is any period one would desire to be born m, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand...old, can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era ? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. I read... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pages
...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 the new stand...old, can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era ? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. I read... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...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 the new stand...old, can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. I read... | |
 | 1889 - 876 pages
...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 war, was the scene of a slow moral revolution, which... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...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 the new stand...old, can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era ? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. I read... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...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 the new stand...old, can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. I read... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...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 the new stand...old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era ? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. I read... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...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 men are searched by fear and by hope ; when the historic glories... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 326 pages
...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 the new stand...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... | |
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