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. Poems and Essays - Page 75by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1897 - 236 pagesFull view - About this book
| Mrs. G. H. Taylor - 1877 - 144 pages
...It is easy in solitude to live above the world's opinion. It is easy in solitude to live after your own. But the great man is he who, in the midst of...with perfect sweetness the independence of Solitude. Eraerson. Shallow men believe in luck, strong men in cause and effect. When bad men combine, the good... | |
| 1914 - 610 pages
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| 1879 - 460 pages
...characteristic may be its singularity. We seem almost to hear the echo of words like unto these of Emerson : " It is easy in the world to live after the world's...perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude." We have seen how the first physical speculations, the utter reliance on sensation, had been thrust... | |
| 1884 - 506 pages
...il, so the way is made open to one who rushes zealously toward some object lying beyond the crowd. It is easy in the world to live after the world's...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of his character. — Emerson. QUEBEC AND MARITIME PROVINCES. FROM Montreal to Quebec is a journey of... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. your own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence... | |
| William Harvey Wells - 1880 - 208 pages
...7. " No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting." — Lady MW Montague. 8. "The great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd,...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." — Emerson. Point out the nouns in the foregoing sentences. Which are proper ? Which common ? Which... | |
| Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1881 - 336 pages
...used on the positive or absolute member, and the rising, on the negative or relative. Example — " It is easy in the world to live after the world's...great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps the independence of solitude." Emphatic circumflex inflections are also employed in irony, rind in... | |
| John Nichol - 1882 - 528 pages
...select a few characteristic examples. " Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds." " The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd...perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude." "We grant that human life is mean, but how did we find out that it was mean ?" " What is the universal... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 352 pages
...harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's...with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. - x The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force.... | |
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