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... Complete Works - Page 83by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1900Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| Tim Youngs - 1997 - 342 pages
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| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| David Harris - 2000 - 664 pages
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