 There are two elements that go to the composition of friendship, each so sovereign that I can detect no superiority in either, no reason why either should be first named. One is Truth. A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may...  For Friendship's Sake - Page 211900 - 91 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Montgomery - 1842 - 662 pages
...elements which go to the composition of friendship, each so sovereign that I can detect no superiority in either, no reason why either should be first named. One is Truth. The other element of friendship is tenderness. * * * The end of friendship is a commerce the most strict... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1854 - 676 pages
...property, arid to suck a short and allconfounding pleasure instead of the pure nectar of God. * * * * ' " A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before...arrived at last in the presence of a man so real, so equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought,... | |
 | Fredrika Bremer - 1858 - 702 pages
...suck a short and allconfounding pleasure instead of the pure nectar ef God. * * # * •' •--' ~':" A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before...aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man -M real, so equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second... | |
 | 1867 - 672 pages
...chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can : such a one is a friend. . . . He is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. ... I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances. I much prefer... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...elements that go to the composition of friendship, each so sovereign that I can detect no superiority in either, no reason why either should be first named....Truth. A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. liefore him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...elements that #• go to the composition of friendship, each so sovereign that I can detect no superiority in either, no reason why either should be first named....with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloudVI am arrived at last in the presence of a man -so real and equal that I may drop even those undermost... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 302 pages
...elements that go to the composition of friendship, each so sovereign that I can detect no superiority in either, no reason why either should be first named. One is Truth. A frtend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in... | |
 | Alfred Hudson Guernsey - 1881 - 340 pages
...friendship, each so sovereign that I can detect no superiority in either, no reason why either should he first named. One is truth. A friend is a person with whom I may he sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 528 pages
...chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can : such a one is a friend. . . . He is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. ... I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances. I much prefer... | |
 | George Prentice - 1883 - 558 pages
...could never go beyond this point, and these never became really his intimates. He said, like Emerson, " A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in presence of a man so real and equal that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation,... | |
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