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" 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. "
Essays - Page 40
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 274 pages
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The North American Review, Volume 163

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...
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Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...middle age; then in Calvinism. Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus, Methodism and Uilitariauism, are flat and dull to dull people, but rest on the...boats, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues, and tire pusillanimity ol honest men, the Northern trade, the Southern planting, the Western clearing,...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 238 pages
...middle age; then in Calvinism. Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and cancus, Methodism and Unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, but rest on the...passing away. Our log-rolling, our stumps and their polities, our fisheries, our Negroes, and Indians, our boats, and our repudiatious, the wrath of rogues,...
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Essays: The poet. Experience. Character. Manners. Gifts. Nature. Politics ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 386 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...foundations of wonder as the town of Troy and the temple of Delphi, and are as swiftly passing away. Our log-rolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries,...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays, 2d series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 382 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...foundations of wonder as the town of Troy and the temple of Delphi, and are as swiftly passing away. Our log-rolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries,...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 2d series

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 380 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...foundations of wonder as the town of Troy and the temple of Delphi, and are as swiftly passing away. Our log-rolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries,...
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Works

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...age ; then in Calvinism. Banks and tariff's, the newspaper and caucus, Methodism and Unitarianism, our Indians, our boats, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues, and the pusillanimity of honest...
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Complete Works, Volume 3

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 282 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...foundations of wonder as the town of Troy and the temple of Delphi, and are as swiftly passing away. Our logrolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries,...
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Criticism and Fiction

William Dean Howells - 1891 - 380 pages
...a king in disguise. . . . Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus, Methodism and Unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, but rest on the...wonder as the town of Troy and the temple of Delphos." Perhaps we ought not to deny their town of Troy and their temple of Delphos to the dull people; but...
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The New England Magazine, Volume 6; Volume 12

1892 - 862 pages
...middle age, then in Calvinism. Banks and tanfls, the newspaper and caucus, Methodism and I'nitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, but rest on the...the town of Troy and the Temple of Delphos, and are to swiftly passing away. Our log-rolling, our stump* and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes...
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