 What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep...  Emerson's Complete Works: Essays. 1st series - Page 83by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1912 - 314 pages
...loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, 25 with a watch, a pencil and a bill of exchange in his...that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength. 30 If the traveler tell us truly, strike the savage with a broad ax, and in a day or two the flesh... | |
 | Alice Hubbard - 1911 - 462 pages
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 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1911 - 148 pages
...taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses 10 old instincts. What* a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch,...to sleep under! But compare the health of the two is men, and you shall see that the white man has lost his aboriginal strength. If the traveler tell... | |
 | Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 pages
...is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch,...white man has lost his aboriginal strength. If the traveler tell us truly, strike the savage with a broad ax, and in a day or two the flesh shall unite... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1915 - 200 pages
...is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch,...Zealander, whose property 'is a club, a spear, a mat and 10 an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under. But compare the health of the two men and you shall... | |
 | Benjamin Alexander Heydrick - 1921 - 416 pages
...is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch,...compare the health of the two men and you shall see that his aboriginal strength the white man has lost. If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1921 - 584 pages
...is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch,...in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose poverty is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under! But compare... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1922 - 314 pages
...loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American. 25 with a watch, a pencil and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked Xew Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep... | |
 | University of Michigan. Department of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1923 - 444 pages
...is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch,...white man has lost his aboriginal strength. If the traveler tell us truly, strike the savage with a broad ax, and in a day or two the flesh shall unite... | |
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