...Emerson in his representative men was their originality, their self-reliance. "He is great," he says, " who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others." It is interesting to see his two lists, given in his Journal for 1849 : * " BIG-ENDIANS LITTLE-ENDIANS...

...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 othtrs. — J HEADQUARTERS Tobacco Workers' International Union, Room» 54-55-56. Am. Nat'l Bank Bldg....

...created the respect and affection that will sustain his memory in years to come. Emerson once wrote that "he is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others." And I believe that this sentence explains the greatness of PAT MCNAMARA. There is no doubt that this...

...created the respect and affection that will sustain his memory in years to come. Emerson once wrote that "he is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others." And I believe that this sentence explains the greatness of PAT McNAMARA. There is no doubt that this...

...for a wise soul to convey his quality to other men. And every one can do his best thing easiest. "Pen de moyens, beaucoup d'effet. " He is great who is...cannot tell what I would know, but I have observed that there are persons who in their characters and actions answer questions which I have not skill...

...unique selfhood to come out fighting: that would be a self-accusation of reactive, secondary status. "He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others" (W,IV,6). Still, Emerson's lectures, following closely upon the publication of Heroes and encouraged...

...Historians ff ^^WTHER MEN are lenses through which we read our own minds," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. "He is great who is what he is from nature, and who...life receive from him some promise of explanation." John Winthrop has offered such a promise to the imaginations of historians who hve examined the early...

...who happen to possess more of this transcendent goodness than others. "He is great," writes Emerson, "who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others." 1 1 1 Melville's negative rendition of the charismatic leader Ahab in Moby-Dick (1851) captures the...

...who happen to possess more of this transcendent goodness than others. "He is great," writes Emerson, "who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others."111 Melville's negative rendition of the charismatic leader Ahab in Moby-Dick (1851) captures...

...discourse in his attempt to describe the obligations that attach the representative to the people. "But he must be related to us, and our life receive from him some promise of explanation," he insists. "A sound apple produces seed, — a hybrid does not" (EM, 617). At the same time that the...