 | 1845 - 564 pages
...by the sacrifice of all that should render life dear — for he is become a slave. Emerson says, " Man is timid and apologetic. He is no longer upright....I think,' ' I am,' but quotes some saint or sage." This is true. This is the fault with the intellect of the day — it appears to be prostrated. On subjects... | |
 | 1848 - 1292 pages
...Priessnitz is the natural medical genius of the age.— EDS. WET SHEET USED BY THE LADIES OF BAGDAD. " Man is timid and apologetic. He is no longer upright....think,' ' I am,' but quotes some 'saint or sage." Every creature is wisely constructed, and endowed with instincts to enable it to make choice of those... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 352 pages
...and an injury, if it be any thing more than a cheerful apologue or parable of my being and becoming. Man is timid and apologetic ; he is no longer upright...but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before tlm blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses... | |
 | 1850 - 524 pages
...Mr. Emerson's mode of teaching :— " Man is timid and apologetic : lie is no longer upright : lie dares not say, 'I think,' 'I am,' but quotes some saint or sage. lie is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blooming rose. Those roses under my window make no... | |
 | George Washington Bungay - 1854 - 506 pages
...faces, instead of keeping it behind our backs, where it legitimately belongs. Hear him : " He dare not say I think I am, but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses, or to better ones; they... | |
 | George Washington Bungay - 1854 - 508 pages
...keeping it behind our backs, where it legitimately belongs. Hear him : " He dare not say I think I arn, but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or blowing rose. These roses under my window make no reference to former roses, or to better ones ; they... | |
 | Benjamin John Wallace, Albert Barnes - 1858 - 720 pages
...progress of society. "Man," he tells us, "is timid and apologetic: he is no longer upright : he does not say, ' I think,' ' I am,' but quotes some saint...under my window make no reference to former roses or better ones : they are for what they are : they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them.".... | |
 | Jules Remy, Julius Lucius Brenchley - 1861 - 660 pages
...apologue or parable of my being and becoming. . . . Man is timid and apologetic. He is not upright. Man dares not say, ' I think,' ' I am,' but quotes some...ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones ; they are for what they... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 470 pages
...and an injury if it be any thing more than a cheerful apologue or parable of my. being and becoming. Man is timid and apologetic ; he is no longer upright...say ' I think,' ' I am,' but quotes some saint or sage.1 He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose. These roses under my window make... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 352 pages
...and an injury if it be any thing more than a cheerful apologue or parable of my being and becoming. Man is timid and apologetic ; he is no longer up'right;...rose. These roses under my window make no reference to for' mer roses or to better ones; they are for what they are ; they exist with God to-day. There is... | |
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Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. 
