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" 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 that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of man. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, Monachism,... "
Twelve Essays - Page 51
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 261 pages
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Select Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...accomplish his design ; — and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients. A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire....that he is confounded with virtue and the possible 1 of man. An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man ; as, Monachism,2 of the Hermit Antony...
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Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1908 - 324 pages
...posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients. A man Csesar is born, and for ages after we f ^ have a Roman Empire. Christ is born, ( (and millions...minds so grow and ) cleave to his genius, that he is con\ founded with virtue and the possible of man. An institution is the length• ened shadow of one...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 5

1909 - 540 pages
...to accomplish his thought; — and posterity seem to follow his steps as a procession. A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire....born, and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his genius1 that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of man. An institution is the lengthened...
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Essays and English Traits

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 508 pages
...to accomplish his thought; — and posterity seem to follow his steps as a procession. A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire....born, and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his genius1 that he is confounded with virtue and the possible of man. An institution is the lengthened...
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Select Essays and Addresses: Including The American Scholar

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...accomplish his design ; — and posterity 20 seem to follow his steps as a train of clients. A man Caesar0 is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire....An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; 25 as Monachism, of the Hermit Antony0 ; the Reformation, of Luther0 ; Quakerism, of Fox0 ; Methodism,...
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The American Scholar,: Self-reliance, Compensation,

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...accompb'sh his design ; — . and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients. A man Caesar1 is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire....is born, and millions of minds so grow and cleave s to his genius, that he is confounded with virtue and the possible2 of man. An institution is the...
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The Pageant of English Prose: Being Five Hundred Passages by Three Hundred ...

Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 pages
...accomplish his design ; — and posterity seems to follow his steps as a train of clients. A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire....institution is the lengthened shadow of one man ; as, Monachism, of the Hermit Antony ; the Reformation, of Luther ; Quakerism, of Fox ; Methodism, of Wesley...
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The African Abroad: Or, His Evolution in Western Civilization ..., Volume 2

William Henry Ferris - 1913 - 516 pages
...agitation, nothing had been done. A man is an institution. Emerson in his essay on "Self Reliance" said, "An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man;...Fox; Methodism of Wesley ; Abolition of Clarkson." And so the Hart Farm School and its continued ideal, the Colored Home Industrial School, is the lengthened...
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English Prose: A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice of ...

Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 530 pages
...to accomplish his thought; — and posterity seem to follow his steps as a procession. A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire. Christ 15 is born, and millions of minds so grow and cleave to his genius that he is confounded with virtue...
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Readings from American Literature: A Textbook for Schools and Colleges

Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 pages
...accomplish his design ; — and posterity seem to follow his steps as a train of clients. A man Caesar is born, and for ages after we have a Roman Empire....institution is the lengthened shadow of one man ; as Monachism, of the hermit Antony ; the Reformation, of Luther ; Quakerism, of Fox ; Methodism, of Wesley...
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