 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
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1879 - 304 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 648 pages
...is taken. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. What a contrast between the well-clad, t is the power of Nature running without impediment...brain and will into the hands. Men and women are hi New-Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and an undivided twentieth of a shed to sleep... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1886 - 390 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 in bis pocket, and the naked New-Zealander, whose property is a club, a spear, a mat, and the undivided... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 408 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1893 - 126 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 - 1894 - 334 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... | |
 | 1896 - 374 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... | |
 | 1896 - 234 pages
...kind of a watch he has, but rhetorically there is a vast difference. He speaks of " the well-clad, reading, writing, thinking American, with a watch, a pencil, and a bill of exchange in his pocket." It would have been just as true to the thought to have said the civilized man, but there would have... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1898 - 498 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... | |
 | george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 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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