 They say that by electro-magnetism, your salad shall be grown from the seed, whilst your fowl is roasting for dinner : it is a symbol of our modern aims and endeavors, — of our condensation and acceleration of objects : but nothing is gained : nature...  Essays: Second Series - Page 191by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1855 - 274 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1844 - 332 pages
...shall be grown from the seed, whilst your fowl is roasting for dinner : it is a symbol of our modern aims and endeavors, — of our condensation and acceleration...nature cannot be cheated : man's life is but seventy sallads long, grow they swift or grow they slow. In these checks and impossibilities, however, we find... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...shall be grown from the seed, whilst your fowl is roasting for dinner ; it is a symbol of our modern aims and endeavors, — of our condensation and acceleration...not less than in the impulses. Let the victory fall wh«re it will, we are on that side. And the knowledge that we traverse the whole scale of being, from... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 504 pages
...shall be grown from the seed, whilst your fowl is roasting for dinner; it it is a symbol of our modern aims and endeavors, — of our condensation and acceleration...impulses. Let the victory fall where it will, we are ou that side. And the knowledge that we traverse the whole scale of being, from the centre to the poles... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 380 pages
...shall be grown from the seed whilst your fowl is roasting for dinner ; it is a symbol of our modern aims and endeavors, of our condensation and acceleration...seventy salads long, grow they swift or grow they slow.3 In these checks and impossibilities, however, we find our advantage, not less than in the impulses.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 386 pages
...shall be grown from the seed whilst your fowl is roasting for dinner ; it is a symbol of our modern aims and endeavors, of our condensation and acceleration...seventy salads long, grow they swift or grow they slow.2 In these checks and impossibilities, however, we find our advantage, not less than in the impulses.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 238 pages
...shall be grown from the seed, whilst your fowl is roasting for dinner; it it is a symbol of our modern aims and endeavors, — of our condensation and acceleration...of objects : but nothing is gained: nature cannot bo cheated: man's life is but seventy salads long, grow they swift or grow they slo-.v. In those checks... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 234 pages
...shall be grown from the seed, whilst your fowl is roasting for dinner; it it is a symbol of our modern aims and endeavors, — of our condensation and acceleration...seventy salads long, grow they swift or grow they slow. Ill these checks and impossibilities, however, we find our advantage, not less than in the impulses.... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 488 pages
...shall be grown from the seed, whilst your fowl is roasting for dinner : it is a symbol of our modern aims and endeavors, — of our condensation and acceleration...nature cannot be cheated : man's life is but seventy salada \ong, grow they swift or grow they slow." This is pretty and pleasant, but as to the literal... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 590 pages
...shall be grown from the seed whilst your fowl is roasting for dinner ; it is a symbol of our modern aims and endeavors, of our condensation and acceleration...seventy salads long, grow they swift or grow they slow." This is pretty and pleasant, but as to the literal value of the prediction, M. Jules Verne would be... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 608 pages
...shall be grown from the seed whilst your fowl is roasting for dinner ; it is a symbol of our modern aims and endeavors, of our condensation and acceleration...seventy salads long, grow they swift or grow they slow." This is pretty and pleasant, but as to the literal value of the prediction, M. Jules Verne would be... | |
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