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
| 1917 - 660 pages
...fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and no perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and...all proportion to their practical force, and so do learn and beg day and night contmua\\y. is mendicant, our arts, our occupation, our marriages, our... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 512 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 - 1909 - 508 pages
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| 1909 - 540 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 - 1909 - 496 pages
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 636 pages
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| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...of death, and afraid of each other. Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and 25 women who shall renovate life and our social state,...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,... | |
| Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 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,... | |
| 1909 - 848 pages
...desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other. 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 - 1917 - 420 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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