 ... cried down by the other half, as if all depended on this particular up or down. The odds are that the whole question is not worth the poorest thought which the scholar has lost in listening to the controversy. Let him not quit his belief that a popgun...  American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 1521850Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 472 pages
...controversy. Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honourable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In...neglect, patient of reproach ; and bide his own time, — happy enough, if he can satisfy himself alone, that this day he has seen something truly. Success... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...controversy. Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a pop-gun, though the ancient and honourable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In...abstraction, let him hold by himself; add observation to observaG tion, patient of neglect, patient of reproach ; and bide his own time, — happy enough, if... | |
 | 1867 - 672 pages
...public and illustrious thoughts, the world's eye and the world's heart. In silence and steadfastness let him hold by himself, add observation to observation,...patient of neglect, patient of reproach, and bide his time. If he can satisfy himself that he has seen the truth, and planted his foot beyond the shores... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1870 - 592 pages
...lost in listening to the controversy. Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to...neglect, patient of reproach ; and bide his own time, — happy enough, • if he can satisfy himself alone, that this day he has seen \ something truly.... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1875 - 584 pages
...lost in listening to the controversy. Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to...neglect, patient of reproach ; and bide his own time, — happy enough, if he can satisfy himself alone, that this day he has seen something truly. Success... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 326 pages
...ancient and honorable of Ihe earth affirm it to bo the crack of doom. In silence, in steadiness, iu severe abstraction, let him hold by himself; add observation to observation, patient of neglect, patient of reproacli ; and bids his own time, — happy enough, if he can satisfy himself alone, that this day... | |
 | Justin Winsor - 1882 - 790 pages
...own intuitions, his own insight. " Let him not quit his belief that a pop-gun is a pop-gun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom ! " He must be free and brave. " Fear is a thing which the scholar, by his very function, puts behind... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 328 pages
...lost in listening to the controversy. (_Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of In sileuce, in steadiness, in severe abstraction, let him hold by himself; add observation to observation,... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1865 - 324 pages
...controversy. Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancient and honourable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom. In...neglect, patient of reproach, and bide his own time, — happy enough, if he can satisfy himself alone, that this day he has seen something truly. Success... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 496 pages
...public and illustrious thoughts — the world's eye and the world's heart. In silence and steadfastness let him hold by himself, add observation to observation,...patient of neglect, patient of reproach, and bide his time. If he can satisfy himself that he has seen the truth, and planted his foot beyond the shores... | |
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