Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater.... Essays: First Series - Page 46by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 290 pagesFull view - About this book
| Dorothy Canfield Fisher - 1922 - 522 pages
...in which the members agree, for the better securing of the bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in...customs. Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. . . . "The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past... | |
| Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1922 - 364 pages
...in the name of sincerity, truth, actuality. "Whoso would be a man," he declares in "Self-Reliance," "must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal...of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness." He does not take up the virtues so methodically and exhaustively as Franklin does. That is mainly because... | |
| Clifford Smyth - 1925 - 850 pages
...— such a man would scarcely be set down as a classicist. Neither does this sound like conservatism: "Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist. He...who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered l>y the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothinc is at last sacred but the integrity... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1924 - 152 pages
...in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in...not realities and creators, but names and customs. — SELF-RELIANCE + oo nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low,... | |
| Stuart Pratt Sherman - 1923 - 286 pages
...sincerity, truth, and actuality. 'Whoso would be a man,' he declared in his famous essay on Self-Reliance, 'must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal...of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.' No American ever lived whose personal life was more exemplary; or who expressed such perfect disdain... | |
| Rolf Hoffmann - 1924 - 798 pages
...Sittlichkeit. »Whoso would be a man«, sagt Emerson, »must be a nonconformist«. Und er fügt hinzu: »He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered...of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness«. Emersons Moralkritik wendet sich mit freimütiger Kühnheit gegen soziale, kirchliche, konventionelle... | |
| Jesse Lee Bennett - 1925 - 374 pages
...to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most requests is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves...not realities and creators, but names and customs. Extracts from "The American Scholar" — an address delivered at the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Cambridge,... | |
| Bruce McCullough, Edwin Berry Burgum - 1926 - 462 pages
...sincerity, truth, and actuality. "Whoso would be a man," he declared in his famous- essay on Self-Reliance, "must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal...of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness." No American ever lived whose personal life was more exemplary; or who expressed such perfect disdain... | |
| Warren Edwin Brokaw - 1927 - 396 pages
...have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age. . . . Who so would be a man, must be a non-conformist. He who would...palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind." In the search for truth there is no room... | |
| Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 pages
...in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in...conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves so not realities and creators, but names and customs. Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist.... | |
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