Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus, Methodism and Unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, but rest on the same foundations of wonder as the town of Troy, and the temple of Delphos, and are as swiftly passing away. Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 37by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876Full view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 284 pages
...Middle Age ; then in Calvinism. Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus, Methodism and Unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, but rest on the...foundations of wonder as the town of Troy and the temple of Delphi, and are as swiftly passing away. Our logrolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries,... | |
| 1892 - 848 pages
...middle age, then in Calvinism. Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus, Methodism and Unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, but rest on the...boats and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues and the pusillanimity of honest men, the Northern trade, the Southern planting, the Western clearing, Oregon... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1884 - 234 pages
...then in Calvinism. Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus, Methodism and Unitariauism, are Hat and dull to dull people, but rest on the same foundations...boats, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues, and the pusillanimity 01 honest men, the Northern trade, the Southern planting, the Western clearing, Oregon... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 402 pages
...middle age ; then in Calvinism. Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus, methodism and unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, but rest on the...boats, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues, and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon... | |
| William Dean Howells - 1891 - 380 pages
...a king in disguise. . . . Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus, Methodism and Unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, but rest on the...wonder as the town of Troy and the temple of Delphos." Perhaps we ought not to deny their town of Troy and their temple of Delphos to the dull people; but... | |
| 1892 - 862 pages
...middle age, then in Calvinism. Banks and tanfls, the newspaper and caucus, Methodism and I'nitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, but rest on the...the town of Troy and the Temple of Delphos, and are to swiftly passing away. Our log-rolling, our stump* and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes... | |
| Agnes Repplier - 1897 - 252 pages
...amid the roughened waters. " Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and the caucus," may, as Emerson says, "rest on the same foundations of wonder as the town of Troy and the Temple of Delphos ; " but, personally, I am more susceptible to Troy, or even to the Chateau d'lf, than I am to banks,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 280 pages
...dull people, but rest on the same foundations of wonder as the town of Troy and the temple of Delphi, and are as swiftly passing away. Our logrolling, our...fisheries, our Negroes and Indians, our boats and oui repu< diations, the wrath of rogues and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trade, the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1901 - 554 pages
...middle age ; then in Calvinism. Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus, methodism and unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, but rest on the...boats and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern trade, the southern planting, the western clearing, Oregon... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 376 pages
...Middle Age ; then in Calvinism. Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus, Methodism and Unitarianism, are flat and dull to dull people, but rest on the...foundations of wonder as the town of Troy and the temple of Delphi, and are as swiftly passing away. Our log-rolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries,... | |
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