| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1841 - 324 pages
...Spartan fife. Let us bow and apologize never more. A great man is coming to eat at my house. I do not wish to please him : I wish that he should wish to...stand here for humanity, and though I would make it 3 kind, I would made it true. Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 356 pages
...Spartan fife. Let us never bow and apologize more. A great man is coming to eat at my house. I do not •wish to please him ; I wish that he should wish...times, and hurl in the face of custom, and trade, apd office, the fact which is the upshot of all history, that there is a great responsible Thinker... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 pages
...Spartan fife. Let us never bow and apologize more. A great man is coming to eat at my house. I do not wish to please him ; I wish that he should wish to...mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times, and huvl in the face of custom, and trade, and office, the fact which is the upshot of all history, that... | |
| John Burroughs - 1877 - 276 pages
...is no mush and milk that you get at this table. " A great man is coming to dino with me ; I do not wish to please him ; I wish that he should wish to please me." On the lecture stand he might be of wood so for as he is responsive to the moods and feelings of his... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 304 pages
...Spartan fife. Let us never bow and apologize more. A great man is coming to eat at my house. I do not wish to please him ; I wish that he should wish to...here for humanity, and though I would make it kind, 1 would m;ike it true. Let us affront and reprimand the smooth mediocrity and squalid contentment of... | |
| James Freeman Clarke - 1881 - 470 pages
...and consistency. I will never bow and apologize more. A great man is coming to my house ; I do not wish to please him ; I wish that he should wish to please me." This doctrine of personal independence Emerson taught in an infinite variety of ways, and it sank deep... | |
| James Freeman Clarke - 1881 - 454 pages
...and consistency. I will never bow and apologize more. A great man is coming to my house ; I do not wish to please him ; I wish that he should wish to please me." This doctrine of personal independence Emerson taught in an infinite variety of ways, and it sank deep... | |
| Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1882 - 136 pages
...globe itself, but the life which stirs and hums on its surface, enveloping it like an atmosphere. 3. I will stand here for humanity, and though I would make it kind, I would make it true. 4. There are moments when the affections rule and absorb the man and make his happiness dependent on... | |
| Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 932 pages
...Spartan fife. Let us bow and apologize never more. A great man is coming to eat at my house. I do not wish to please him ; I wish that he should wish to...in the face of custom, and trade, and office, the tact which is the upshot of all history, that there is a great responsible Thinker and Actor moving... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 pages
...Spartan fife. Let us never bow and apologize more. A great man is coming to eat at my house. I do not wish to please him ; I wish that he should wish to...would make it true. Let^ us affront and reprimand til ft sf"»»t}i mediocrity and squalid contentment of the times, and hurl in the face of custom and... | |
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