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" ... professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to' Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always, like a cat, falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He... "
Essays - Page 69
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 333 pages
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The Monthly magazine

Monthly literary register - 1841 - 1092 pages
...days, and feels no shame in not ' studying a profession," for he does not postpone his life, but live* already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances. Let a stoic arise who shall reveal the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and...
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Select Essays and Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1808 - 168 pages
...is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days, and feels no shame in not " studying a profession," for he does not postpone his...not one chance, but a hundred chances. Let a stoic arise who shall reveal the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 396 pages
...is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days, and feels no shame in not ( studying a profession/ for he does not postpone his...not one chance, but a hundred chances. Let a stoic arise who shall reveal the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and...
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The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register

1841 - 640 pages
...is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days, and feels no shame in not ' studying a profession,' for he does not postpone his...not one chance, but a hundred chances. Let a stoic arise who shall reveal the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and...
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Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days, and feels no shame in not ' studying a profession,' .for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. He^has_not•.pne chance,- hut a hundred chances. Let a stoic arise who shall reveal the resources...
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The Dublin Journal of Temperance, Science, and Literature. ..., Volume 2

1843 - 450 pages
...is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days, and feels no shame in not " studying a profession ;'. for he does not postpone his life, but lives already. Ho has not one chance, but a hundred chances American Paper. CABBAGE — The cabbage, observes a French...
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Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 11

1844 - 604 pages
...not postpone his life, b it lives already. He has not one chance ! Let a stoic arise who shall reveal the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning...self-trust, new powers shall appear ; that a man is the word made flesh, born to shed healing to the nations ; that he êhould be ashamed of our compassion...
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The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 11

1844 - 608 pages
...not postpone hia life, but lives already. He has not one chance ! Let a stuic ure who shall reveal the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and nvnt detach themselves ; that, with the exercise of self-trust, new- powers shall appear; that a man...
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Essays, Lectures and Orations

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days, and feels no shame in not' studying a profession,' for he does not postpone his...not one chance, but a hundred chances. Let a stoic arise who shall reveal the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and...
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Essays, orations and lectures

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...abreast with his days, and feels no shame in not " studying a profession," for he does not postone his life, but lives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances. Let a stoic arise who shall reveal the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and...
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