To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. Nature: Addresses, and Lectures - Page 15by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883 - 315 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1994 - 1211 pages
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| Robert A. Garfinkle - 1997 - 364 pages
...see what else you can star-hop to. 110 April Ursa Major: A Dipper round tripper To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society.... But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds,... | |
| Michael J. Crowe - 1994 - 468 pages
...[Given modern astronomy,] Who can be a Calvinist or who an Atheist[?]—2 From Emerson's "Nature" (1836) But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. . . . One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly... | |
| Derek Wall - 1994 - 273 pages
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| James Boyd White - 1994 - 348 pages
...played off this style, using it, for example, in the famous opening of "Nature": "To go into solitude a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society." Here he assumes, as natural, a way of talking that generalizes confidently about what "a man" needs... | |
| William Sheehan - 1995 - 460 pages
...lived and worked. Ralph Waldo Emerson, for whom Elizabeth Barnard had named her son, had once written: If a man would be alone, let him look at the stars . . . One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly... | |
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