 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 pages
...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. SYLLABUS. No period was ever marked with such progress as the last fifty years. A nation's literature... | |
 | 1884 - 750 pages
...live after 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 the crowd, keeps, with perfect sereneness, the independence of solitude. WE are soul-bound. What though through prison bars We hear... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 pages
...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. The only way to have a friend is to be one. You shall not come nearer to a man by getting into his house.... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 624 pages
...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. The only way to have a friend is to be one. You shall not come nearer to a man by getting into his house.... | |
 | 1887 - 460 pages
...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 keeps 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... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1888 - 584 pages
...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... | |
 | Orson Ferguson Whitney - 1888 - 544 pages
...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 his character. — Emerson. PUBLISHED BY THE KIMBALL FAMILY, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. PRINTED AT THE JUVENILE... | |
 | Virginia Waddy - 1889 - 432 pages
...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"; "In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 pages
...greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great. 2229 Emerson : Miscellanies. Literary Ethics. The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. 2230 Emerson : Essays. Self-Reliance. We balance one man with his opposite, and the health of the State... | |
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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. 
