 | James Elliot Cabot - 1887 - 406 pages
...remark which somebody repeated here from SS, that I ' always seemed to be on stilts.' It is even so. Most of the persons whom I see in my own house I see...exceed the frigidity and labor of my speech with such. You might turn a yoke of oxen between every pair of words ; and the behavior is as awkward and proud.... | |
 | 1889 - 686 pages
...suggest by way of reply that it was a sentiment ; and that as such its influence for good, if it had any, is to be looked for in a deeper way of feeling...can exceed the frigidity and labor of my speech with such.'1 (p. 361.) " In his own domestic circle, Emerson was affectionate and unreserved, even playful... | |
 | John Jay Chapman - 1898 - 270 pages
...touched. Every man is an infinitely repellent orb, and holds his individual being on that condition. . . . Most of the persons whom I see in my own house I see 76 across a gulf; I cannot go to them nor they come to me." This aloofness of Emerson must be remembered... | |
 | John Jay Chapman - 1898 - 276 pages
...touched. Every man is an infinitely repellent orb, and holds his individual being on that condition. . . . Most of the persons whom I see in my own house I see 76 across a gulf; I cannot go to them nor they come to me." This aloofness of Emerson must be remembered... | |
 | Mary Fisher - 1899 - 408 pages
...repeated here, from SS, that I 'always seemed to be on stilts.' It is even so. Most of the persons I see in my own house I see across a gulf. I cannot go to them, nor can they come to me. Nothing can exceed the frigidity and labor of my speech with such. You might turn... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1902 - 290 pages
...quotes approvingly the remark of some one that he " always seemed to be on stilts." " It is even so. Most of the persons whom I see in my own house I see...a gulf. I cannot go to them nor they come to me." He lacked sympathy with men. He cared nothing for persons as such, but only for the genius of humanity... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1902 - 280 pages
...quotes approvingly the remark of some one that he " always seemed to be on stilts." " It is even so. Most of the persons whom I see in my own house I see...a gulf. I cannot go to them nor they come to me." He lacked sympathy with men." He cared nothing for persons as such, but only for the genius of humanity... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1904 - 330 pages
...of some one that he "always seemed to be on stilts." "It is even so. Most of the persons whom I sec in my own house I see across a gulf. I cannot go to them nor they come to me." He lacked sympathy with men. He cared nothing for persons as such, but only for the genius of humanity... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1904 - 324 pages
...quotes approvingly the remark of some one that he "always seemed to be on stilts." "It is even so. Most of the persons whom I see in my own house I see...a gulf. I cannot go to them nor they come to me." He lacked sympathy with men. He cared nothing for persons as such, but only for the genius of humanity... | |
 | Olin Alfred Curtis - 1905 - 568 pages
...touched. Every man is an infinitely repellent orb, and holds his individual being on that condition. . . . Most of the persons whom I see in my own house I see...a gulf; I cannot go to them, nor they come to me." Compare with Emerson's essay on "Self-reliance." 132 Thomas Arnold (the younger). From an article in... | |
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Most of the persons whom I see in my own house I see across a gulf; I cannot go to them nor they come to me. 
