 If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of...  The Monthly magazine - Page 197by Monthly literary register - 1840Full view - About this book
 | Richard P. Horwitz - 2001 - 420 pages
...he has learned that he can swim. If there is any period one would desire to be born in — is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand...old, can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. I read... | |
 | Joseph J. Ellis - 2002 - 276 pages
...Paradoxes in the Revolutionary Era If there is any period one would desire to be bor n in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand...old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. Ralph... | |
 | Jeffrey P. Sklansky - 2002 - 340 pages
...is any period one would desire to be born in," wrote Emerson, "is it not the age of Revolution . . . when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?" In his famed 1837 address, "The American Scholar," Emerson had in mind a cultural and... | |
 | Kenneth Sacks - 2003 - 426 pages
...has learned that he can swim. If there is any period one would desire to be born in, — is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand...old, can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. I read... | |
 | Patrick J. Keane - 2005 - 575 pages
...echo of the political hopes and fears expressed in The Prelude and in Coleridge's "France: An Ode"), "the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope." In this revolutionary context, Emerson embraces "the common": I read with joy of the auspicious signs... | |
 | Larry Chang - 2006 - 826 pages
...the Too, Thomas Cleary, tr., 1988 If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side . . . when the glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This... | |
 | Len Gougeon - 2012 - 280 pages
...times were electrified by the possibility of positive change. It was indeed, a revolutionary time, "when the old and the new stand side by side, and...energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope." 119 Now was the time when the voice of the prophet must be heard. The words that he wrote many years... | |
 | Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 pages
...he has learned that he can swim. If there is any period one would desire to be born in, - is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand...old, can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. I read... | |
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