 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 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,... | |
 | Jeff Huggins - 2006 - 416 pages
...and cleanse conscience. In his classic essay "Self-Reliance," Ralph Waldo Emerson insightfully wrote, Virtues, are, in the popular estimate, rather the...apology or extenuation of their living in the world, — as invalids and the insane pay a high board. Their virtues are penances.-^0 Keeping in mind that... | |
 | Tom Walsh - 2007 - 200 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...as an 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,... | |
 | Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 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,... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 430 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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