 ... from New Hampshire or Vermont, who in turn tries all the professions, who teams it, farms it, peddles, keeps a school, preaches, edits a newspaper, goes to Congress, buys a township, and so forth, in successive years, and always like a cat falls on...  The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays. 1st series - Page 76by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876Full view - About this book
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - 1927 - 1288 pages
...hidden meanmz lies m our endeavors; chance, but a hundred chances. Let a Our valorg are our £ost gods Stoic open the resources of man and tell men they are not leaning willows, Another sort of false prayers are our but can and must detach themselves ; ю regrets. Discontent is... | |
 | Joseph Franklin Marsh - 1928 - 264 pages
...again from Emerson who has cheered the author in many a struggle : Let a stoic arise who shaH reveal the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning...must detach themselves ; that with the exercise of self -trust, new powers shall appear ; that a man is the word made flesh, born to shed healing to the... | |
 | 1911 - 706 pages
...faith in the worth of the individual. In " Self-Reliance " he says : Let a stoic arise who shall reveal the resources of man and tell men they are not leaning...willows, but can and must detach themselves — that a man is the word made flesh — and that the moment he acts from himself, tossing the laws, the books,... | |
 | Donald Capps - 1993 - 198 pages
...successive years, and always, like a cat, falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days, and feels no shame...already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances (SR, 43). As a boy, Emerson was himself deprived of love and affection by Calvinistic parents whose... | |
 | Jopi Nyman - 1997 - 396 pages
...successive years, and always, like a cat, falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days, and feels no shame...he does not postpone his life, but lives already." Neither is Emerson the only representative of gendered individualism within the Western or American... | |
 | Terry Roberts - 1998 - 147 pages
...successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame...already. He has not one chance but a hundred chances. (1979, p. 75) We might add to our profile of the successful 21st century individual that he or she... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2005 - 69 pages
...successive years, and always like a cat falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame...not one chance, but a hundred chances. Let a stoic arise who shall reveal the resources of man and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and... | |
 | Micki McGee - 2005 - 304 pages
...successive years, and always, like a cat, falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days, and feels no shame...already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances. 28 Pursuit of self and the pursuit of a specific occupation are not equivalent. Emerson's endorsement... | |
 | 1908 - 530 pages
...successive years, and always, like a cat, falls en his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days, and feels no shame...he does not postpone his life, but lives already." Never was there a broader or livelier spirit of enterprise, and I am proud to be the husband of one... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 430 pages
...successive years, and always, like a cat, falls on his feet, is worth a hundred of these city dolls. He walks abreast with his days and feels no shame...profession," for he does not postpone his life, but fives already. He has not one chance, but a hundred chances. Let a stoic open the resources of man... | |
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