 ... cried down by the other half, as if all depended on this particular up or down. The odds are that the whole question is not worth the poorest thought which the scholar has lost in listening to the controversy. Let him not quit his belief that a popgun...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 1521850Full view - About this book
 | Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 310 pages
...controversy. Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honourable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In...neglect, patient of reproach, and bide his own time, — happy enough if he can satisfy himself alone that this day he has seen something truly." . . .... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 318 pages
...controversy. Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honourable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In...of neglect, patient of reproach, and bide his own time,—happy enough if he can satisfy himself alone that this day he has seen something truly." .... | |
 | 1838 - 536 pages
...showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation." " In silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction,...patient of reproach, and bide his own time." "Free should the scholar be, — free and brave." " The day is always his, who works in it with serenity... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 932 pages
...popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honourable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom- 1" silence, in steadiness, in severe abstraction, let...neglect, patient of reproach, and bide his own time, — happy enough if he can satisfy himsell alone that this day he has seen something trulj." ... "I... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...controversy. Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honourable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In...neglect, patient of reproach; and bide his own time, —happy enough, if he can satisfy himself alone, that this day he has seen something truly. Success... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...controversy. Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honourable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In...of neglect, patient of reproach; and bide his own time—happy enough, if he can satisfy himself alone, that this day he has seen something truly. Success... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 408 pages
...lost in listening to the controversy. Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to...neglect, patient of reproach ; and bide his own time, — happy enough, if he can satify himself alone, that this day he has seen something truly. Success... | |
 | 1849 - 448 pages
...lost in listening to the controversy. Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to...neglect, patient of reproach, and bide his own time, — happy enough, if he can satisfy himself alone, that this day he has seen something truly. Success... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1856 - 404 pages
...lost in listening to the controversy. Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to...neglect, patient of reproach ; and bide his own time, — happy enough, if he can satisfy himself alone, that this day he has seen something truly. Suscess... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1864 - 626 pages
...controversy. Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honourable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In...neglect, patient of reproach, and bide his own time, — happy enough, if he can satisfy himself alone, that this day he has seen something truly. Success... | |
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