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" 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 83
by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883
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Self-reliance, and Other Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1993 - 132 pages
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 7

1861 - 792 pages
...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,...and a bill of exchange in his pocket, and the naked New-Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and the undivided twentieth part of a shed...
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Writing and Race

Tim Youngs - 1997 - 342 pages
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The Cambridge Review, Volume 9

1888 - 536 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...
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Elbert Hubbard's Selected Writings: The American Bible

Fra Elbert Hubbard - 1998 - 408 pages
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The American Intellectual Tradition: 1630-1865

David A. Hollinger, Charles Capper - 2001 - 580 pages
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Boats Against the Current: American Culture Between Revolution and Modernity ...

Lewis Perry - 2002 - 356 pages
...its lurking opposite."25 He asserted, in some respects, the superiority of the life of the civilized American "with a watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his pocket" to that of the primitive hunter of New Zealand.26 Yet Plato's philosophy and Plutarch's biographies...
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Skew-Tolerant Circuit Design

David Harris - 2000 - 664 pages
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The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Writings

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 2003 - 288 pages
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How to Prepare for the THEA: The Texas Academic Skills Program

Sandra L. McCune, Nancy J. Wright, Janet Elder, Katherine Gonnet - 2004 - 836 pages
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