 | William Swinton - 1885 - 624 pages
...sages. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own : but the great man is he who in the midst...perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The only way to have a friend is to be one. You shall not come nearer to a man by getting into his house.... | |
 | 1886 - 216 pages
...think It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. EMERSON. Man should dare all things that he knowr. are right, And fear to do no act save what is wrong... | |
 | 1887 - 460 pages
...there is among so many of losing all self-reliance in matters of study. The great student no less than the great man is "he who in the midst of the crowd...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." Discussion from day to day with one's fellowstudents of the subjects under consideration is broadening... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1887 - 222 pages
...exciting things happened,' be assured that you are in a good way."1 " The great man," says Emerson, " is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the serenity of solitude." And he closes his Conduct of Life with a striking allegory. The young mortal... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who in the midst...If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead Bible-society, vote with a great party either for the government or against it, spread your table like... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 pages
...in / I ^ £~ the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect ! f sweetness the independence of solitude, f The objection to conforming to usages that have become...If you maintain a dead church, contribute to a dead BibleSociety, vote with a great party either for the Government or against it, spread your table like... | |
 | Orson Ferguson Whitney - 1888 - 544 pages
...WHITNEY. IT IS easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it 'is easy in solitude to live after our own ; but the great man is he who, in the midst...crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of his character. — Emerson. PUBLISHED BY THE KIMBALL FAMILY, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. PRINTED AT THE JUVENILE... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1888 - 584 pages
...December 7th. The essayist took as a' text for her much enjoyed production, Emerson's sentence, " A great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." Cincinnati, Ohio.- Rev.Geo.A. Thayer is giving a series of eight sermons on "The Truths and Errors... | |
 | Virginia Waddy - 1889 - 428 pages
...: "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude"; "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain... | |
 | Virginia Waddy - 1889 - 432 pages
...examples: "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude "; "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain... | |
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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. 
