 Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on...  Essays - Page 46by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Chestine Gowdy - 1901 - 268 pages
...dangerous voyage, it might happen that they never should meet again in this world. — BRADFORD. 20. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece...fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. — EMERSON. 21. The objection of conforming to uses that have become dead to you is, that it scatters... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 pages
...succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which byand-by I shall have the manhood to withhold. Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule. There is the man cmd his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 476 pages
...succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold. Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception...apology or extenuation of their living in the world, — as invalids and the insane pay a high board. Their virtues are penances. I do not wish to expiate,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 460 pages
...and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar, which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold.2 Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception...apology or extenuation of their living in the world, — as invalids and the insane pay a high board. Their virtues are penances. I do not wish to expiate,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 pages
...succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar, which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold. Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception...apology or extenuation of their living in the world, — as invalids and the insane pay a high board. Their virtues are penances. I do not wish to expiate,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 70 pages
...succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by-andby I shall have the manhood to withhold. Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception...apology or extenuation of their living in the world, — as invalids and the in9 sane pay a high board. Their virtues are penances. I do not wish to expiate,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1906 - 200 pages
...and love. A LL persons exist to society by some shining trait of beauty or utility, which they have. "THERE 'is the man and his virtues. Men do what is...fine in expiation of daily nonappearance on parade. "TRAVELLING is a fool's paradise. We owe to our first journeys the discovery that place is nothing.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar, which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold. Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. 20 Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 496 pages
...succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar, which by-and-by I shall have the manhood to withhold. Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception...apology or extenuation of their living in the world, — as invalids and the insane pay a high board. Their virtues are penances. I do not wish to expiate,... | |
 | 1909 - 540 pages
...succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar, which by-and-by I shall have the manhood to withhold. Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception...apology or extenuation of their living in the world, — as invalids and the insane pay a high board. Their virtues are penances. I do not wish to expiate,... | |
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