 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
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 454 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,...the health of the two men, and you shall see that his aboriginal strength the white man has lost. If the traveler tell us truly, strike the savage with... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 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,...pencil, and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the 510 naked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1902 - 66 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,...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... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 448 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,...the health of the two men, and you shall see that his aboriginal strength the white man has lost. If the traveler tell us truly, strike the savage with... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 478 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,...traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with a broad-axe and in a day or two the flesh shall unite and heal as if you struck the blow into soft pitch,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 842 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,...traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with a broad-axe and in a day or two the flesh shall unite and heal as if you struck the blow into soft pitch,... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 476 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,...and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New-Zealander, whose prop• erty is a club, a ' spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1904 - 362 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,...traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with a broad-axe and in a day or two the flesh shall unite and heal as if you struck the blow into soft pitch,... | |
 | John Horne - 1904 - 172 pages
...arts and loses old instincts. . . . Compare the health of the well-clad, reading, thinking American and the naked New Zealander, whose property is a club,...and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under ! . . . The civilised man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. He has a fine Geneva... | |
 | Mary Minerva Barrows - 1905 - 208 pages
...is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the wellclad, 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... | |
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