 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.  Select Essays and Poems - Page 35by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1898 - 120 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." — Emerson. Point out the nouns in the foregoing sentences. Which are proper ? Which common... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It your own ; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence... | |
 | 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 opinion...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 keeps, with 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900 - 356 pages
...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 opinion...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 352 pages
...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 opinion;...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. - x The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...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 opinion...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is, that it scatters your... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 350 pages
...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 opinion...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.... | |
 | Voice, J. E. - 1883 - 212 pages
...good or bad,honie influences will,as a rule, fan them into activity. Character, independence of. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion ; it is easy in solitude to live alter our own. But the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 356 pages
...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 opinion...crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. The objection to conforming to usages thr.t have become dead to you is that it scatters your... | |
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