 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
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 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 - 1926 - 412 pages
...and^bv I shall have the manhood to withhold. ^l/4/t Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exc than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. Men...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 - 1979 - 434 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 - 1983 - 1196 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,... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - 1994 - 214 pages
...men behaving as if their acts were fines they paid "in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade," done "as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world — as invalids and the insane pay a high board. Their virtues are penances." This vision of human... | |
 | Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 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,... | |
 | David Wittenberg - 2002 - 300 pages
...virtue and as typical— charity is rather a substitute for genuine selfhood than an attribute of it: "Men do what is called a good action, as some piece...as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world,—as invalids and the insane pay a high board" (£, 263). Here, while health or bodily integrity... | |
 | Stanley Cavell, David Justin Hodge - 2003 - 300 pages
...men behaving as if their acts were fines they paid "in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade," done "as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world — as invalids and the insane pay a high board. Their virtues are penances." This vision of human... | |
 | Mark G. Vásquez - 2003 - 424 pages
...these opening statements include "Trust thyself"; "Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist"; "Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule"; "What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think"; "A foolish consistency is the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 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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