 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 - 1983 - 1196 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...politics, our fisheries, our Negroes, and Indians, our boasts, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues, and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern... | |
 | Thomas Krusche - 1987 - 384 pages
...age;then in Calvinism. Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus, methodism andunitarianism,areflat and dull to 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 stumps and their politics, our fisheries,... | |
 | Peter J. Conn - 1989 - 624 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...politics, our fisheries, our Negroes, and Indians, our boasts and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues, and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern... | |
 | Betsy Erkkila - 1989 - 369 pages
...Roads In his 1844 essay "The Poet," Ralph Waldo Emerson described an American poet who did not exist. "Our logrolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes, and Indians, our boasts, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues, and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern... | |
 | Robert F. Sayre - 1994 - 750 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,... | |
 | Susan Goodman - 1994 - 270 pages
...just with « life » but with a uniquely American life. That life encompassed nothing less than « our logrolling, our stumps and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes, and Indians, our boasts, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues, and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1995 - 304 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,... | |
 | John Caldwell Guilds, Caroline Collins - 1997 - 296 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." Emerson goes on to make a catalogue for an epic not yet written:... | |
 | John Hollander - 1997 - 342 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,... | |
 | Jerome Loving - 2000 - 642 pages
...the equivalent to Emerson's exhortation in "The Poet." The compelling orator from Concord had said, "our stumps and their politics, our fisheries, our Negroes and Indians, our boasts, and our repudiations, the wrath of rogues and the pusillanimity of honest men, the northern... | |
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