Reason from her inviolable seat pronounces on the passing men and events of to-day, — this he shall hear and promulgate. These being his functions, it becomes him to feel all confidence in himself, and to defer never to the popular cry. He and he only... Retrospect of Western Travel - Page 208by Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 178 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 pages
...immediate fame. In the long period of his preparation, he must betray often an ignorance and shiftlessness in popular arts, incurring the disdain of the able...that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...promulgate. These being his functions, it becomes him to feel all confidence in himself, and to defer never 7 to the popular cry. He and he only knows the world....that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,... | |
| 1849 - 448 pages
...pure efflux of the Deity is not his ; — cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame •• The world of any moment is the merest appearance....that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,... | |
| 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... | |
| Kenelm Henry Digby - 1854 - 626 pages
...rise above the world of appearances, " to hold to their belief that a squib is a squib, though the honourable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom ;" but their business is not to declaim like Seneca, to celebrate the divine beauty of virtue with... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...promulgate. These being his functions, it becomes him to feel all confidence in himself, and to defer never 9 to the popular cry. He and he only knows the world....that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 pages
...being his functions, it becomes him to feel all confidence in himself, and to defer never •• .'j the popular cry. He and he only knows the world. The...that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 410 pages
...immediate fame. In the long period of his preparation, he must betray often an ignorance and shiftlessness in popular arts, incurring the disdain of the able...that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 pages
...knows the world. The world of any moment is the merest appearance. Some great decorum, some fetisl of a government, some ephemeral trade, or war, or...that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,... | |
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