 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1983 - 1196 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,... | |
 | Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 pages
...dangerous lack of greatness or perfection in society. "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" (Essays, 274-275). Emerson's insistence on the viability... | |
 | Charles B. Guignon - 1999 - 350 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,... | |
 | Joel Myerson - 2000 - 751 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,... | |
 | T. Gregory Garvey - 2001 - 310 pages
...would-be reformers of the day suffer from a conspicuous lack of self-reliance and, hence, are failures. “We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state,” he says, “but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition... | |
 | Cyrus R. K. Patell - 2001 - 268 pages
...“Self-Reliance,” when he issues a call for a new society, Emerson includes both men and women: “We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state” (274). Moreover, “Self-Reliance” provides us with an example of Emerson revising his work in order... | |
 | Lawrence Buell - 2004 - 420 pages
..."Self-Reliance," like all other Emerson essays, relies on the masculine pronoun with scattered exceptions like "We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state" (CW 2: 43). Emerson's writings overall make clear that he believed Self-Reliance was harder for women... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 256 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,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2004 - 284 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...but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisly their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force and do lean... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 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,... | |
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