 If there is any period one would desire to be born in, — is it not the age of Revolution ; when the old and the new stand side by side and admit of being compared ; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope ; when the historic glories...  The International Quarterly - Page 267edited by - 1903Full view - About this book
 | 1838 - 536 pages
...find themselves not in the state of mind of their fathers, and regret the coming state as untried." " If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution ? " " One of the auspicious signs of coming days is the fact, that the same movement which effected... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1840 - 694 pages
...Cambridge, in America ( Au* By Thomas Carlylc. London : James Fraser, Regent Street. •gust 31st, 1837), " If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not in the age of revolution ? when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared;... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...water before he has learned that he can swim. If there is any period one would desire to be born m, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and...compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era ? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. I read with joy... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...before he has learned that he can swim. If there is any period one would desire to be born in,—is it not the age of Revolution ; when the old and the...compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. I read with joy some... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...regret the coming state as untried; as a boy dreads the water before he has learned that he can swim. If there is any period one would desire to be born...compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era ? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. I read with joy... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 402 pages
...regret the coming state as untried ; as a boy dreads the water before he has learned \hat he can swim. If there is any period one would desire to be born...compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. I read with some... | |
 | 1889 - 876 pages
...very existence of their city is unproven. HWP and LD FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION. EMERSON says, " If there is any period one would desire to be born...in, is it not the age of revolution, . . . when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope ? " New England, for many years before the civil... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1860 - 410 pages
...regret the coming state as untried ; as a boy dreads the water before he has learned that he can swim. If there is any period one would desire to be born in, — ia it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...regret the coming state as untried ; as a boy dreads the water before he has learned that he can swim. If there is any period one would desire to be born...compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. I read with joy some... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...regret the coming state as untried ; as a boy dreads the water before he has learned that he can swim. If there is any period one would desire to be born...compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era ? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. I read with some... | |
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