 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
 | 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1905 - 70 pages
...is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the wellclad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch,...exchange in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, 45 whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep under. But... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1907 - 270 pages
...the well-clad, reading, writing, think20 ing American, with a watch, a pencil and a bill of exchange3 in his pocket, and the naked New Zealander, whose...the health of the two men and you shall see that the 25 white man has lost his aboriginal strength. If the traveller tell us truly, strike the savage with... | |
 | 1907 - 656 pages
...tread-mill. For everything that is given something is taken. What a contrast between the wellclad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch,...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... | |
 | 1909 - 540 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 496 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... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1909 - 484 pages
...is taken. Society acquires new arts and loses old impulses. 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 tells us truly, strike the savage... | |
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