 Nature is no sentimentalist, — does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman, but swallows your ship like a grain of dust.  The Conduct of Life - Page 12by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 308 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Hannah Flagg Gould - 1927 - 328 pages
...somebody shall knock at his door, and leave a half-dollar. But Nature is no sentimentalist — does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is...respect no persons. The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...somebody shall knock at his door, and leave a half-dollar. But Nature is no sentimentalist —does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is...respect no persons. The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 500 pages
...somebody shall knock at his door, and leave a half-dollar. But Nature is no sentimentalist, — does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is...respect no persons. The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger, and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 504 pages
...somebody shall knock at his door, and leave a half-dollar. But Nature is no sentimentalist, — does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is...respect no persons. The (way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger, and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 504 pages
...somebody shall knock at his door, and leave a half-dollar. But Nature is no sentimentalist, — does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is...respect no persons. The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger, and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 320 pages
...somebody shall knock at his door and leave a half-dollar. But Nature is no sentimentalist, — does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is...respect no persons. The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the anap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...somebody shall knock at his door, and leave a half-dollar. But Nature is no sentimentalist, — does not s these inflammations by invoking the aid of other...the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger, and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 330 pages
...Nature is no sentimentalist, — does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is rough.and surly, and will not mind drowning a man or a woman,...respect no persons. The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the unap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 488 pages
...individual and the inexplicable rule of law are illustrated. " Nature is no sentimentalist, — does not cosset or pamper us. We must see that the world is...or a woman ; but swallows your ship like a grain of du. t. — The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger... | |
 | William Roscoe Thayer - 1886 - 34 pages
...John Morley. existence and mystery of Evil is recorded. Listen to a few of his stern facts : — " We must see that the world is rough and surly, and...woman, but swallows your ship like a grain of dust. The diseases, the elements, fortune, gravity, lightning, respect no persons." 1 " Let us not deny it up... | |
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