 | John James Ingalls - 1902 - 552 pages
...inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and with difficulty, * * who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others." By this rule of isolated personality, John James Ingalls is certain of racial immortality. His contemporaries... | |
 | Macbeth Gallery - 1908 - 336 pages
...make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error. * * * * He is a great man who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. * * * Between rank and rank of our great men are wide intervals. — Emerson 815 MACBETH GALLERY PAINTINGS... | |
 | 1903 - 264 pages
...consecrating it anew upon the enduring foundations of liberty and equality. Some one has said that he is great who is what he is from nature and who never reminds us of others. The subject of this memorial service to my mind comes within that definition. Mr. President, I close... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1188 pages
..." All these will I relinquish if you will show me the fountain of the Nile." New England Reformer!. He is great who is what he is from Nature, and who never reminds us of others. Rtpretentativc Men. Ute> of Great Metis not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the... | |
 | 1903 - 258 pages
...consecrating it anew upon the enduring foundations of liberty and equality. Some one has said that he is great who is what he is from nature and who never reminds us of others. The subject of this memorial service to my mind comes within that definition. Mr. President, I close... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1903 - 112 pages
...consecrating it anew upon the enduring foundations of liberty and equality. Some one has said that he is great who is what he is from nature and who never reminds us of others. The subject of this memorial service to my mind comes within that definition. Mr. President, I close... | |
 | Bruce Cornwall - 1906 - 126 pages
...Printed by To my Mother SADA DAVIS CORNWALL these pages are affectionately inscribed BRUCE CORNWALL "He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others." Emerson. Jforetoorfc These pages are but poor substitutes for those I should like to offer. Had Mr.... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1906 - 368 pages
...circumspice." Who can question the greatness of this man? He meets the definition of Emerson that " He is truly great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others." What man in all the centuries, Christian or pagan, resembles Franklin? Of whom does he remind us? Take... | |
 | 1922 - 538 pages
...relations ; whilst they must make painful corrections and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error. He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. IT was my privilege to meet Dr. Bell only once, upon the occasion of a meeting of the Board of Directors... | |
 | James Newton Matthews - 1911 - 360 pages
...the individuality of Matthews that he has been likened to no other writer. Emerson says, "He is truly great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others." Matthews is sui generis; he writes like none other than himself. Our poet is too recent for a just... | |
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He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others. 
