We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state, but we see that most natures are insolvent; cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually.... The Essay on Self-reliance - Page 43by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 59 pagesFull view - About this book
| Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 432 pages
...of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...so do lean and beg day and night continually. Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen,... | |
| Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 416 pages
...of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...so do lean and beg day and night continually. Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 pages
...of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...so do lean and beg day and night continually. Our housekeeping is mendicant; our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...so do lean and beg day and night continually^ Our housekeeping is mendicant; our arts, our occupations, our marriages, our religion we have not chosen,... | |
| Frank Aydelotte - 1923 - 450 pages
...of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...out of all proportion to their practical force and do lean and beg day and night continually. Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations,... | |
| University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 430 pages
...of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...out of all proportion to their practical force, and do lean and beg day and night continually. Our housekeeping is mendicant; our arts, our occupations,... | |
| University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 460 pages
...of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...out of all proportion to their practical force, and do lean and beg day and night continually. Our housekeeping is mendicant; our arts, our occupations,... | |
| University of North Dakota - 1917 - 420 pages
...Emerson answers this question with historic accuracy and spiritual insight, as the following words show: We want men and women who shall renovate life and...own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion •Oppenheimer, "The State," p. 90, Indianapolis, 1914. to their practical force, and so do learn and... | |
| 1955 - 1122 pages
...little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. WE WANT MEN and women who shall renovate life and...out of all proportion to their practical force, and do lean and beg day and night continually. IT IS EASY TO SEE that a greater self-reliance must work... | |
| Charles T. Sprading - 1913 - 550 pages
...of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...out of all proportion to their practical force, and do lean and beg day and night continually. Our housekeeping is mendicant, our arts, our occupations,... | |
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