An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man ; as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony ; the Reformation, of Luther ; Quakerism, of Fox ; Methodism, of Wesley ; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio, Milton called " the height of Rome " ; and all history resolves... Essays - Page 53by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1850 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 580 pages
...Cresar is born, and for ages after we liave a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of minds ao grow and cleave to his genius, that he is confounde'd...institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio,... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...train of clients. A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his genius...Rome;" and all history resolves itself very easily into t biography of a few stout and earnest persons. Let a man then know his worth, and keep things under... | |
| Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 pages
...train of clients. A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, vf x|Ԝ,%1 p @K -o$3 5 J) p Clarkson.1 Scipio, Milton called "the height of Rome"; and all history resolves itself very easily... | |
| 1914 - 660 pages
...steps as a procession. A man Cssar is born and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his genius, that he is confounded with the possible of man. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man, as the Reformation of Luther... | |
| David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - 2000 - 466 pages
...(1841) 1950:127. 2 A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his genius...An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man. Self- Reliance (1841) 1940:154. 3 Men are what their mothers made them. Fate (1860) 1979:10. Ernst... | |
| Julius Rubin - 2000 - 277 pages
...fully to accomplish his design; and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients. . . . An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as Monachism of the Hermit Anthony; the Reformation, of Luther, Quakerism of Fox; Methodism of Wesley. 1 Author, theologian, publisher,... | |
| David Wittenberg - 2002 - 300 pages
...train of clients. A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his genius,...An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man . . . , and all history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons.... | |
| 2005 - 494 pages
...theory of history: "A man Caesar is born, and for ages after, we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his genius,...institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as ... the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. .... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 pages
...steps as a procession. A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his genius...institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson. Scipio,... | |
| 2005 - 494 pages
...man Caesar is born, and for ages after, we have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, and millions of [317] minds so grow and cleave to his genius, that he is...institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as ... the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley; Abolition, of Clarkson and... | |
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