| Thomas Carlyle - 1883 - 416 pages
...you have made your American visit. I assure you the view of Britain is excellent from New England. We are all a little wild here with numberless projects...draft of a new Community in his waistcoat pocket. I am gently mad myself, and am resolved • to live cleanly. George Ripley is talking up a colony of... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1883 - 394 pages
...you have made your American visit. I assure you the view of Britain is excellent from New England. We are all a little wild here with numberless projects...draft of a new Community in his waistcoat pocket. I am gently mad myself, and am resolved to live cleanly. George Ripley is talking up a col-' ony of agriculturists... | |
| 1888 - 1004 pages
...Transcendental movement in America. "Not a reading man in the community," wrote Emerson in 1840, " but has a draft of a new community in his waistcoat pocket." Yet when, in 1841, he was asked to join the experiment, he refused. He was " resolved to live cleanly,"... | |
| Wendell Phillips Garrison, Francis Jackson Garrison - 1889 - 560 pages
...Carlyle in the previ- Oct. 30, ous autumn, " We are all a little wild here with number- 184 °' less projects of social reform. Not a reading man but has...draft of a new community in his waistcoat pocket." And on December 31, 1840, Quincy wrote to Collins: MS. " Ripley is as full of his scheme of a community... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1890 - 676 pages
...How far was he influenced by the zeit geist t It was, indeed, a potent geist. Emerson writes of it to Carlyle, — "We are all a little wild here with...draft of a new Community in his waistcoat pocket. I am gently mad myself, and am resolved to live cleanly." It is believed that Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus"... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 598 pages
...and girls in New England," and " "The Dial ' dying of inanition! " In October, 1840, Emerson writes to Carlyle : — "We are all a little wild here with...draft of a new community in his waistcoat pocket. I am gently mad myself, and am resolved to live cleanly. George Ripley is talking up a colony of agriculturists... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 616 pages
...boys and girls in New England," and " 'The Dial' dying of inanition!" In October, 1840, Emerson writes to Carlyle: — "We are all a little wild here with...draft of a new community in his waistcoat pocket. I am gently mad myself, and am resolved to live cleanly. George Ripley is talking up a colony of agriculturists... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 606 pages
...and girls in New England," and " 'The Dial ' dying of inanition! " In October, 1840, Emerson writes to Carlyle : — " We are all a little wild here with...draft of a new community in his waistcoat pocket. I am gently mad myself, and am resolved to live cleanly. George Ripley is talking up a colony of agriculturists... | |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 590 pages
...and girls in New England," and " 'The Dial ' dying of inanition! " In October, 1840, Emerson writes to Carlyle : — "We are all a little wild here with...draft of a new community in his waistcoat pocket. I am gently mad myself, and am resolved to live cleanly. George Ripley is talking up a colony of agriculturists... | |
| 1893 - 416 pages
...country ideal societies. Boston as the center of liberal and humanitarian notions was deeply stirred. Emerson wrote to Carlyle, "We are all a little wild...draft of a new community in his waistcoat pocket." Surrounded with such influences, Mr. and Mrs. Ripley became enthusiastic. "That so strong a feeling,"... | |
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