 But to return to our own institute; besides these constant exercises at home, there is another opportunity of gaining experience to be won from pleasure itself abroad; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury...  Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson - Page 340by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 351 pagesFull view - About this book
 | J. D. Bell - 1850 - 488 pages
...V. UTILITARIANISM. "In those vernal seasons of the year," says John Milton, " when the air is soft and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against...Nature, not to go out and see her riches and partake in her rejoicings, with heaven and earth." Not a few people may justly be charged with this "injury... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1850 - 716 pages
...early habituated to every species of military * and gymnastic exercise ; and when he pronounces it, " in those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, an injury and sullenness against Nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...?! 3. In what case is vale, and haw 2. What time is this p | governed ? IX. THE CHARMS OF NATURE. " IN those vernal seasons of the year, when the air...nature not to go out and see her riches and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and .,. » .*••!, ... earth." — Milton. O HOW canst thou renounce... | |
 | Sir Thomas More (Saint) - 1852 - 348 pages
...empty 14 8 The author, we see, was no friend to the penances of monkery; but thought, like Milton, that "in those vernal seasons of the year, when the air...nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth." Tractate on Education, § 22. Select Prose Works, 1. 164.... | |
 | 1852 - 512 pages
...were sullen While earth itself is adorning This sweet May morning." WORDSWORTH, Thanksgiving Ode. " In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and a suttennesi against nature not to go out and see her riches." — MILTON, Tract on Education, " Expression... | |
 | 1852 - 342 pages
...how to grumble. "In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant," says Milton, "it were an injury and sullenness against Nature, not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicings with heaven and earth." If Nature is mean enough to rejoice after having defrauded... | |
 | 1852 - 348 pages
...welcome a light pudding, when we have had no meat ! I trust I am a Briton and know how to grumble. "In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant," says Milton, "it were an injury and sullenness against Nature, not to go out and see her riches, and... | |
 | 1852 - 746 pages
...those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is soft and pleasant, it were an injury and wllenness against nature not to go out and see her riches and partake with her rejoicings with heaven and earth." We certainly do not envy the disposition of the man who... | |
 | 1853 - 618 pages
...constant exercises at home, there is another opportunity of gaining pleasure from pleasure itself abroad ; in those vernal seasons of the year when the air is...nature, not to go out and see her riches and partake in her rejoicing in heaven and earth. I should not therefore be a persuader to them of studying much... | |
 | Seacome Ellison - 1854 - 120 pages
...Deity in which it floats, and grateful for the rays that relieve its native gloom." — MARTINEAU. " In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air...Nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth." — MILTON. " Whether we consider the ocean as rearing its... | |
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