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 40by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 274 pagesFull 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 - 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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