 | John Louis Haney - 1923 - 484 pages
...and deserve the most careful study. In the former we come across such stimulating thoughts as these: There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better or worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn... | |
 | Daniel Berkeley Updike - 1924 - 128 pages
...pass. "There is a time in every man's education," says Emerson, "when he arrives at the conviclion that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which... | |
 | Clara Barrus - 1925 - 452 pages
...the hills, but the Future beckoned. 1 Now Arkville. CHAPTER III THE WRITER IN EMBRYO ) ^ 1854-1863 There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed upon that plot of ground which is given him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature,... | |
 | William James - 1988 - 1410 pages
...conviction that imitation is suicide; when he must take himself for better or worse as his portion; and know that though the wide universe is full of good, no...through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which it was given him to till." The matchless eloquence with which Emerson proclaimed the sovereignty of... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1989 - 450 pages
...teach you. 7. Luke 9:53. 8. Mark 8:36-37. 9. George Herbert, "The Elixir," lines 1-4, 13-16. 10. Cf. "There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction . . . that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion" ("Self-Reliance," CW 2:27-28). See also... | |
 | Craig Hickman, Craig Bott, Marlon Berrett, Brad Angus - 1996 - 240 pages
...us in his essay "Self-Reliance," "There is a time in every man's [woman's] education when he [she] arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; the he [she] must take himself [herself] for better, for worse, as his [her] portion; that though the... | |
 | Thomas Frank - 1997 - 340 pages
...any other document of the decade." chapter four THREE REBELS: ADVERTISING NARRATIVES OF THE SIXTIES There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...imitation is suicide, that he must take himself for better or worse as his portion. Insist on yourself. Never imitate. . . . Society everywhere is in a conspiracy... | |
 | Thomas Frank - 1997 - 336 pages
...any other document of the decade." chapter four THREE REBELS: ADVERTISING NARRATIVES OF THE SIXTIES There is a time in every man's education when he arrives...conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suiciae, that he must take himself for better or worse as his portion. Insist on yourself. Never imitate.... | |
 | Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 pages
...origin of self-possessed subjectivity, the moment when every man must take himself as his portion: "There is a time in every man's education when he...arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance: that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion: that though the wide universe is full of... | |
 | Anne Ruggles Gere - 1997 - 394 pages
...of a white middle-class group that had been reading Emerson. "Objection was raised to the statement 'There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance and imitation is suicide.' Other truths came up for discussion and were thrown in new lights."61 On... | |
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There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of... 
