 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
 | 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... | |
 | University of Michigan. Dept. of Rhetoric and Journalism - 1924 - 446 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... | |
 | Robert Shafer - 1926 - 1410 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 - 1926 - 412 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 property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep... | |
 | Louis Wann - 1926 - 564 pages
...need we copy the contrast between the well-clad, readin.tr. Doric or the Gothic model ? Beauty, con- writing, thinking American, with a watch. a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his an opera-glass, discovered a more splendid pocket, and the naked New Zealander, series of celestial... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1926 - 398 pages
...old instincts. What a contrast between e well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a itch, a pencil and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the iked New Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a at and an undivided twentieth of a shed to... | |
 | 1861 - 884 pages
...It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. ... What a contrast between the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange [January, in his pocket, and the naked Ncw-Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and... | |
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