To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. Emerson, Poet and Thinker - Page 58by Elisabeth Luther Cary - 1904 - 284 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 pages
...his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars....those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 384 pages
...his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars....those heavenly worlds will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in... | |
| 1848 - 916 pages
...society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with mo. But if a man would bo alono, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from...those heavenly worlds will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man in... | |
| 1849 - 206 pages
...his chamber as from society. 1 am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars....those heavenly worlds will separate between him and vulgar thing». One might t.Ymk that the atmosphere was iiino'e transparent with this design, m give... | |
| 1849 - 448 pages
...the fact. No chart of nature hangs up in his windows to shut out nature herself. How well he says : " If a man would be alone, let him look at the stars....those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man in... | |
| 1850 - 426 pages
...his chamber, as from society. I am not weary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But 0 U CE " $fB Ψ M p P O_ Ϝ 5 Oo ' _ m6` $ A .G 8 4 / ΄ j & L xl n 㡶 fs + care between him and vulgar things. One might think.the atmosphere was made transparent with this design,... | |
| 1854 - 428 pages
...back to man, and see him struggling on the surface of a flood and buffeting with its boiling waves. ' One might think the atmosphere was made transparent...cities, how great they are. If the stars should appear but one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore ; yet every night come out these... | |
| Day Kellogg Lee - 1854 - 378 pages
...about the stars, if you please, Miss O'Warden. That's a bit of beauty, I'm sure it is." Julia road—" If a man would be alone, let him look at the stars....those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in... | |
| Congregational union of England and Wales - 1860 - 702 pages
...the ceiling! So much for Voltaire's prediction ! THE USE OF STARS. One might think the atmosphère was made transparent with this design, to give man,...heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime. — Emenon. HOW TO DO GOOD. Dr. Johnson wisely said, "He •who waits to do a great deal of good at... | |
| 1862 - 600 pages
...from our prosy tasks into the cool night air, and behold them spread out for the universal vision ! One might think the atmosphere was made transparent...the heavenly bodies the perpetual presence of the tubhme. Seen in the streets of cities, how great they are ! If the Btaru should appear but one night... | |
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